snooty

Example Sentences

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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

By so doing, they fail to take out Trump’s dominance advantage while continuing to look like snooty elites.

From Salon

The city is not as snooty and pretentious as San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times

Then in 1978 comes this movie that shows two competing fraternity chapters: Kevin Bacon’s Omega Theta Pi, representing the old snooty ways, and John Belushi’s Delta Tau Chi, showing a wild new future.

From Salon

The Oscars will never be the place for snooty cinephiles like myself to exercise our theories and pet squabbles.

From New York Times