snootiness

Example Sentences

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Khan, taken aback by their snootiness, is said to have quipped, "If you'd watched my movies, you would know I am not much of an actor."

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025

To wit: L’Avant-Garde offers the most seductive setting, and some of the most beautiful food, but also service that can border on French caricatures of snootiness that I haven’t experienced even in Paris.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

He writes with the coolness of a sociologist, the passion of someone with a horse in the race, and the smarts to avoid both cheerleading and snootiness.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022

Connors is the bridge between the genteel, upper-middle class snootiness of the amateur tennis club and the modern, ultra-focused, hard-hitting professional game.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2020

The story made the rounds of the international media, often treated as an instance of English eccentricity, snootiness, or small-town paranoia.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019