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toffee-nosed

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ADJECTIVE
  1. snobbish; pretentiously superior

How To Use toffee-nosed In A Sentence

  • Jessica is taunted by boys at school for being a toffee-nosed virgin and Tom is bullied for being a weirdo.
  • We're a very friendly, laid-back hunt with nothing toffee-nosed about us at all.
  • Fortunately, the presenter did at least tie the toffee-nosed buffoon in such knots that the programme's viewers could clearly see his underlying motives.
  • Beautiful design, fantastic cocktails and a distinct lack of toffee-nosed attitude from the staff - it blows the competition out of the water!
  • But all his kindness has earned him not the thanks of the toffee-nosed British Establishment but their supercilious contempt.
  • The bloke there was a bit toffee-nosed, but he gave me a good deal for it.
  • He is a failed actor who is everywhere patronised as a colonial, especially by the toffee-nosed English theatrical types for whom he still hopefully auditions.
  • But all his kindness has earned him not the thanks of the toffee-nosed British Establishment but their supercilious contempt.
  • Yes Stephen Fry, I'll settle for 'pleb' … Shame you're not yourself, you toffee-nosed Establishment stooge. Guy Fawkes' blog
  • They say that he looks like another toffee-nosed Tory.
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