snooty

The central plot involves a young caddie in search of a college scholarship at a snooty golf club.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Your first exposure to the person you would become was at a snooty British school while rowing crew.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 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

“Oh, it’s you again,” Handsome said in a low, snooty voice.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

The Guardian's Hephzibah Anderson said Keyes' book would win her something "long overdue in snootier literary quarters: respect".

From BBC ● May 26, 2024

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

"A Permanent Image" is that species of playwriting frowned upon by the snootier factions of the avant-garde — the domestic drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2015

“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