snooty
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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
Her plot-rich story includes art terrorists, undercover agents, snooty Parisians, sneaky New Yorkers and a one-armed billionaire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
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
The Oscars will never be the place for snooty cinephiles like myself to exercise our theories and pet squabbles.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
And then there were the snooty people in the back, who got to sit in, like, covered areas and look down at the groundlings and feel all superior in their silk feathered hats.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
The Guardian's Hephzibah Anderson said Keyes' book would win her something "long overdue in snootier literary quarters: respect".
From BBC ● May 26, 2024
It also gave him a leg up on snootier agents who may have tossed their newspaper sports sections.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
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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