snottiness

“That was just some snottiness,” Loesch told her listeners.

“That was just some snottiness,” Loesch told her listeners.

In recent years, Limbaugh’s cheerful snottiness had curdled into irredeemable bile, and the bounciness of his best shows slowed into a joyless trudge.

“I hope you read the rough transcript of that Trump phone call with the Ukrainian president,” he says, with a snottiness that would make the hand of the most ardent Bernie supporter twitch for a moment over the ballot paper.

In “All My Puny Sorrows,” Toews describes a character based on her mother as “a short, fat seventy-six-year-old Mennonite prairie woman who has lived most of her life in one of the country’s most conservative small towns, who has been tossed repeatedly through life’s wringer,” yet who remains “jovial and curious and delighted and oblivious to snottiness.”