snooty
Example Sentences
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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
“Oh, it’s you again,” Handsome said in a low, snooty voice.
From Literature
DNA is a snooty aristocrat, never stooping to engage in day-to-day tasks.
“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
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