snooty
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Recent trends pairing caviar with chicken nuggets and hot dogs had already created something of an identity crisis for the snooty food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Cricket, long regarded as the game of the English upper classes, is experiencing a revival north of the border—without some of its famously snooty traditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Grosse Pointe Garden Society” is set in the upscale, i.e. snooty, Detroit suburb of that name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2025
Robert Sietsma, at Eater, wrote in April 2023 that the Noortwyck is a "handsome but casual restaurant" that "may sound snooty; it's anything but."
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2024
“I don’t know, but I’m sure she is. I used to think she was just snooty, but it’s something else, I’m sure of it now. Madame’s scared of us.”
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Guardian's Hephzibah Anderson said Keyes' book would win her something "long overdue in snootier literary quarters: respect".
From BBC ● May 26, 2024
Nearby, a golden glow falls over the sublime Sunnyvale, Shadyside’s richer, snootier neighbor.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2021
Versions of these knockoffs are still stocked in drugstores although snootier noses can tell the real deal from an Imposter and may gag at its very mention.
From Salon ● May 7, 2021
Martha had lived in Madrona for decades, by the end of which, it wasn’t the same — not as mixed in terms of race, overall snootier, she said with regret.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2019
“Yes, and she’s even snootier than those boys across the street. And their parents. She’s the worst!”
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
Heard about that fresh new wave of horror dominating the box office and charming even the snootiest of critics?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Eliot, newest, biggest, "snootiest" of the Houses, draws the same type of youth as Dunster, but is cut up into social cliques.
From Time Magazine Archive
I told Mom she was the snootiest squatter I’d ever met, and that made her laugh.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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