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