sniffy
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Synonyms
arrogant, assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin (also hifalutin), huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, stiff-necked, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity
Antonyms
humble, lowly, modest, unarrogant, unpretentious
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There is a similarly detailed list of American girls who have already married peers, along with a fairly sniffy résumé of what various titles are worth. — Anne De Courcy, WSJ, "Five Best: Anne de Courcy on Books About Society in the Gilded Age," 5 Oct. 2018 Economists are generally sniffy about them, with some justification. — The Economist, "Left in the lurchGlobalisation has marginalised many regions in the rich world," 21 Oct. 2017 Call it subway surfing: Just a 90-minute ride from Times Square, the Rockaways have long been a boarding haven, an oceanfront corner of New York City with waves good enough to please even the sniffiest surfer. — Mark Ellwood, CNT, "You Can Now Glamp on NYC's Rockaway Beach," 25 Sep. 2017 Political professionals can be a bit sniffy about gerrymandering’s importance as an explanation for government dysfunction. — The Economist, "Arnie lends some muscle to the campaign against gerrymandering," 22 July 2017 This is roughly the same formulation that greets the sniffy pop culture critic: The pace, the material, the plot — Revenge! Accuse! Defend! Deport! Eliminate! — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, "Binge-watching Trump's First 100 Days: How he's clashed with the arts but is all about entertainment," 27 Apr. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sniffy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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