How To Use Snooty In A Sentence
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When her snooty daughter visits, she is embarrassed by her relative poverty.
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There's no point in being overly snooty about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Come on – that group is a mouthpiece not for animal rescue groups – but kennel owners – a snooty subsegment of the dog-breeding industry.
Doggone It, Just Get the Puppy Already - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Opera snobs are terribly snooty about Bocelli's particular brand of "popera" - Time To Say Goodbye, which he does with Sarah Brightman, is possibly the cheesiest song ever to have been recorded - but I imagine that as he sang to the crowd in Central Park, he couldn't have given two hoots.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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There is no real segregation - people are not snooty in Ripon.
Times, Sunday Times
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The right-bankers find the left bank kind of snooty and touristy I suppose.
08/03/2006
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People can be kind of snooty about community colleges, [but] they are flexible and ready to go," says Judy Goggin, a vice president of Civic Ventures, a San Francisco nonprofit that works to redirect individuals age 50-plus into service-oriented careers.
Savvy Schools
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Penelope" tells the perfectly -- well, imperfectly -- inane tale of a snouty young woman from a snooty family.
Two heads better than one in 'The Other Boleyn Girl'
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She was my mother's mother, a proud, snooty woman who had never really forgiven my mom for marrying my dad.
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Certain quarters of the snooty music press spent years writing them off as lager louts.
The Sun
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Call the French snooty, or just demanding, for their attention to good food, good wine, good atmosphere in their restaurants, for lingering over their meals.
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Decent wine and good food are among Taylor's corporal pleasures and he speaks with what one local describes as a ‘snooty, old-fashioned Ulster accent’.
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If the author says -- this is all about books, let's either write a contract that includes your Hollywood subagent as a signing party, if there ever is one, or just leave the film rights you don't handle out of it -- would the book agent call her a snooty diva and give her the boot?
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The snooty subtext here is that to possess anything resembling a potty mouth is just so awfully common.
The Sun
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It sounds bit snooty but it's not.
The Sun
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The snooty presenter was having a good old chuckle at the opening lines of the song.
Times, Sunday Times
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My parents, as they potter through Camberwell and snooty suburbs walking their dog, chat away with locals and the subject often comes up.
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It's particularly over-used with any footage of somebody who looks slightly snooty buying things, and much loved by any programme-maker who's clunkily attempting to make an ironic point.
The Guardian World News
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It sounds bit snooty but it's not.
The Sun
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Theirs is the usual self-absorbed soap-opera drama of backstabbing and bitchery, snooty cliques and casual cruelty.
Times, Sunday Times
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They've got a snooty superior liberalist attitude to the working-classes and conservatives alike.
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A good ploy with a snooty shop assistant, for example, is to pretend eccentricity.
The Sun
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He loves to bully and to unleash his hounds on what he sees as the snooty, wishy-washy liberal establishment.
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Laurel called to them, speaking of their snooty old riding instructor at the equestrian academy the girls had attended together most of their lives.
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Which sounded kind of snooty to me, but what's it matter when an old girlfriend shows up on your doorstop with a blind girl.
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They may feel you're a bit snooty.
The Sun
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Let's not get too snooty here.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rest of the fashion industry, which has previously been rather snooty about tattoos, is finally embracing them.
Times, Sunday Times
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The snooty receptionist says, ‘I'm sorry, but there's absolutely no way we can arrange an ear syringing today.’
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Some people might get snooty about reality TV, but there is a huge appetite out there and more and more channels.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am reinforced in this belief, too, because the chair of the LUPS DG, whose son applied early to Blue State Inst. of Tech and was waitlisted, was kind of snooty about the whole thing.
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There is no real segregation - people are not snooty in Ripon.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no real segregation - people are not snooty in Ripon.
Times, Sunday Times
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You're not keen on fast food to the point of being a bit snooty about it.
The Sun
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The reality is that we don't have an honest, straightforward, public official in this country, in the federal government I should say who can say, now imagine this, candor coming from the European Union about their crisis, which was created by our sub prime mortgage lending, their minister of finance and economics saying their crisis was created by what he calls snooty bankers who thought they were so clever that they didn't need to follow the lessons of history or prudent, prudent lending.
CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2007
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I was rather snooty about it, in fact.
Times, Sunday Times
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* I am also making daring use of the word "eschew," which is forbidden by some publications as being snooty.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
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Even "snooty" mainstream authors such as Margaret Atwood or Doris Lessing have no qualm with admitting they write SF.
MIND MELD: Science Fiction as a 'Geek' Genre
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Too bad you weren't around a few centuries ago... you could have saved that Aquinas guy I'll save you the trouble of looking it up --- he was one of the "snooty" ones a whole lot of trouble.
"A cloned human would be imbued with the same immaterial presence that binds us all, even Antonin Scalia, to the Godhead."
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I am in no position to get snooty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surely not the snooty shop assistants?
The Sun
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The American arts fan, long mythologized as a snooty, wealthy elitist, is changing.
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But that's all over now and the good news is that another, so-called snooty salad green, dandelion, is at its prime -- and free for the picking -- in between the concrete slabs of even the most urban neighborhoods today.
Cathy Erway: A Green Green That's Good for You and Your Wallet, Too
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The German finance minister told the Financial Times that the "snooty" attitude of bankers has "ended in disaster.
As More Bankers Beg for Cash,
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Surely not the snooty shop assistants?
The Sun
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Yes, I blame liberals for this new kind of snooty-speak.
Sound Politics: I read the news today, oh boy
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Still, the typewriter's primary market appears to be snooty novelists who claim they cannot compose on any technology introduced since Hemingway took a dirt nap.
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They always gave that stuck-up, snooty look to old technical teachers like me.
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I suppose they're going to get all snooty and start treating me like their personal assistant.
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A young fugitive on a motorbike ran out of petrol and was kissed by the boss's snooty daughter as a dare.
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They always gave that stuck-up, snooty look to old technical teachers like me.
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A snooty restaurant manager took over.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a proper snooty Hollywood restaurant too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anne Elliot's unperceived beauty and taken-for-granted goodness are rewarded with true love, despite ugly sisters, other snooty barnyard creatures, and a kind but bad counsellor in her mother's best friend Lady Russell.
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Especially impressive is Oliver Chris, who as Stanley one of Francis's two masters has many of the zingiest lines and exudes an improbable mixture of snooty arrogance and charm.
Evening Standard - Home
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That snooty neighbour of yours may be sitting in the same row and spot you during the intermission.
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The snooty subtext here is that to possess anything resembling a potty mouth is just so awfully common.
The Sun
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‘Arguably, the seventh most-renowned serious vocal ensemble in the world’, its five members turn up their snooty noses at anything remotely popular or modish.
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Unlike the scenes in the movie Pretty Woman I have never run in to rude or snooty sales clerks.
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Snooty He's too snooty to associate with his old friends now he's rich.
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This snooty imagery is aided by the fact that the band are still teenagers and sing about the sometimes petty concerns of their age.
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I was rather snooty about it, in fact.
Times, Sunday Times
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You're not keen on fast food to the point of being a bit snooty about it.
The Sun
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The snooty presenter was having a good old chuckle at the opening lines of the song.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just another snooty $ 3, 000 vacuum tube amplifier, I thought.
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The local tourist office lists other accommodation Chris Greenwood, director of Stop Making Sense festival in CroatiaSome riding centres can be snooty if you haven't had your kids in jodhpurs since they stepped out of nappies.
Summer holidays: Top 10 places for over-fives
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They may feel you're a bit snooty.
The Sun
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Just another snooty $ 3, 000 vacuum tube amplifier, I thought.
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‘Well so are you,’ Krist returned haughtily, in his snooty, hoity-toity accent.
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The days are long past when independent schools were the preserve of Lord Snooty and his pals.
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These new northern pilgrims are less snooty than their colonising predecessors.
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It made it a bit easier for us that even the snooty critics seemed to expect more of that electronic stuff.
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A snooty restaurant manager took over.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where was the nasal nerdy voice, the plaid suit, the snooty know-it-all haughtiness?
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It was a proper snooty Hollywood restaurant too.
Times, Sunday Times
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I look shocked as the snooty little brat walked toward the office.
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Most events are free, and even snooty elitists are welcome.
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She was my mother's mother, a proud, snooty woman who had never really forgiven my mom for marrying my dad.
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Between Lord Snooty and Fat Al there are a number of amusing and attractive broadcasters, provided you realise that the views they propound are for amusement only – which was not a problem for me this year.
My bad luck at cards paid dividends at the Cheltenham Festival | Martin Kelner
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Also, I'm not trying to sound snooty or anything, but I have a graduate degree in playwriting, so I probably spend way too much time analyzing things like character, plot development, symbolism and other imagery, plot contrivances, etc., to the extent that I realize I probably attribute things to an author that even the author may not have intended.
Sound Off: The Happening - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net
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Plus, no snooty attitudes or other conventional store trappings allowed.
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The Compasses was as far removed from the Snooty Fox as the bike from a GTi.
THE ONLY GAME
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So while Barthes' personal preference in pens may veer towards the snooty and luxurious, the cheap, utilitarian, artless little ballpoint certainly has its place in the greater scheme of things.
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The riposte to such cultural protectionism is that it is cynical, self-interested and reflects a cultural conservatism and snooty suspicion of popular culture by certain political elites.
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Let's not get too snooty here.
Times, Sunday Times
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His name may sound snooty and whatnot, but this guy is one of the coolest guys you'll find in this school.
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It was the same snooty disdain masking the deep hurt she was feeling.
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The snooty subtext here is that to possess anything resembling a potty mouth is just so awfully common.
The Sun
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IT is very easy to be snooty about the work of John Steinbeck who, to the bemusement of many, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
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I am in no position to get snooty.
Times, Sunday Times
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“Ought to be a law against it!” a snooty old man snooted.
Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation
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It is not a snooty place to live," said Louis Andors, an agent with Keller Williams who lives in adjacent Aurora Hills.
The Arlington Ridge neighborhood: Walking distance to everything
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The snooty presenter was having a good old chuckle at the opening lines of the song.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many felt, however, that in the snooty world of racing he was made an example because of his background.
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A good ploy with a snooty shop assistant, for example, is to pretend eccentricity.
The Sun
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I hate the French cookery, and abominate garlick," Tobias Smollett told his readers 245 years ago, with a snooty disregard for foreigners that runs through too much travel writing today.
Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial
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You like feeling snooty about other people who disagree with you.
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Culturally aware and cleverly written, this anatomy of the French-fried versus sun-dried tension at the heart of American gastronomy is refreshingly non-snooty.
Cover to Cover
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In a paranoid mood, one might interpret that as frosty, even snooty.
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Some people might get snooty about reality TV, but there is a huge appetite out there and more and more channels.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hate the French cookery, and abominate garlick," Tobias Smollett told his readers 245 years ago, with a snooty disregard for foreigners that runs through too much travel writing today.
Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial
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This is the snooty tone of most of the reports on consumer debt.
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Many Britons dismiss these reservations with a snooty disregard, and tend to make barbed remarks about pampered children and bad leisurewear.
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Kelly was hardly alone in his contempt for the snooty officials.
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The snooty subtext here is that to possess anything resembling a potty mouth is just so awfully common.
The Sun
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Certain quarters of the snooty music press spent years writing them off as lager louts.
The Sun
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The rest of the fashion industry, which has previously been rather snooty about tattoos, is finally embracing them.
Times, Sunday Times
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I say this as someone who has been working as an academic in French studies for more than 20 years and always hated the fantasy version of France and, in particular, the image of snooty tourists sipping pastis in the Dordogne.
French is too important to be left to middle-class Francophiles | Andrew Hussey
