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

“Perhaps a terrible flaw but we felt perfectly satisfied with playing to a few thousand people and we were a bit snooty about it also,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

California had its own north/south rivalry, and Otis resented Northern Californians’ snooty perception of the “cow counties” south of the Tehachapi Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times

The city is not as snooty and pretentious as San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times

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