snooty
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It’s the moment when old-school French — think white tablecloths, heavy sauces and snooty maitre’d’s — faded into the background, allowing nouvelle cuisine and what we now call New American to take its place.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 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
There was a certain inner comfort in knowing he could knock down anybody who was snooty to him, although, being very shy and a thoroughly nice boy, he never fought except in the gym.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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