snooty
Example Sentences
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DNA is a snooty aristocrat, never stooping to engage in day-to-day tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
The city is not as snooty and pretentious as San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024
The Oscars will never be the place for snooty cinephiles like myself to exercise our theories and pet squabbles.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024
Coffee was seen as a patriotic drink in the colonies following the Boston Tea Party, but it was also a snooty one.
From Salon • Dec. 9, 2023
“Of course they are,” says the elevator in a snooty voice.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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