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snooty

[snoo-tee] / ˈsnu ti /


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The central plot involves a young caddie in search of a college scholarship at a snooty golf club.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

DNA is a snooty aristocrat, never stooping to engage in day-to-day tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 13, 2025

Then in 1978 comes this movie that shows two competing fraternity chapters: Kevin Bacon’s Omega Theta Pi, representing the old snooty ways, and John Belushi’s Delta Tau Chi, showing a wild new future.

From Salon Apr. 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

It’s the snooty girl from the Chumley a cappella group.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

The Guardian's Hephzibah Anderson said Keyes' book would win her something "long overdue in snootier literary quarters: respect".

From BBC May 26, 2024

It also gave him a leg up on snootier agents who may have tossed their newspaper sports sections.

From New York Times Sep. 4, 2022

Versions of these knockoffs are still stocked in drugstores although snootier noses can tell the real deal from an Imposter and may gag at its very mention.

From Salon May 7, 2021

Martha had lived in Madrona for decades, by the end of which, it wasn’t the same — not as mixed in terms of race, overall snootier, she said with regret.

From Seattle Times Aug. 10, 2019

“Yes, and she’s even snootier than those boys across the street. And their parents. She’s the worst!”

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

Heard about that fresh new wave of horror dominating the box office and charming even the snootiest of critics?

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Eliot, newest, biggest, "snootiest" of the Houses, draws the same type of youth as Dunster, but is cut up into social cliques.

From Time Magazine Archive

I told Mom she was the snootiest squatter I’d ever met, and that made her laugh.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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