snooty

adjective

\ ˈsnü-tē

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snootier; snootiest

Definition of snooty

1 : looking down the nose : showing disdain

2 : characterized by snobbery a snooty store

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the actress plays a genteel yet faintly snooty older woman

Recent Examples on the Web Hurdles to love in the Lifetime universe are limited to your company’s hostile takeover of your hometown's favourite bakery or an obnoxious, snooty ex. — Yomi Adegoke, refinery29.com, "Lifetime Movies Are My Pandemic Escapism," 4 Apr. 2021 Lady Gwendoline, 38, her snooty sister, is married to a wealthy bully. — Seija Rankin, EW.com, "What's in a Page: Jennifer Ryan on the very necessary snacks of The Kitchen Front," 23 Feb. 2021 My snooty pet peeve now feels like the apex of pre-pandemic luxury. — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, "Our Lines, Our Selves: What the Things We Wait For Say About Us," 17 Feb. 2021 Later, when Basil Brown contemplates leaving the project over clashes with snooty officials from the British Museum, his wife delivers a drippy speech exhorting him to persist. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "How The Dig and Ammonite Fetishize British-ness," 27 Jan. 2021 The story picks up with the older J.D. at Yale, interviewing for positions with snooty law firms and feeling conspicuously out of place alongside the blue-blooded, legacy candidates, who know which fork to use. — Brian Lowry, CNN, "'Hillbilly Elegy' turns J.D. Vance's memoir into a dreary movie," 24 Nov. 2020 There were episodes about Lorelai dressing inappropriately to visit Rory’s snooty new prep school, and Rory getting a D on a test. — Saul Austerlitz, New York Times, "Why ‘Gilmore Girls’ Endures," 23 Nov. 2020 Jen has decided to throw a birthday party for Meredith even though Meredith thinks Jen is a little much and Jen thinks Meredith is a little snooty. — Jodi Walker, EW.com, "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City," 12 Nov. 2020 Unlike the aloof smartypants Sherlock or snooty old-fashioned Mycroft, Enola is warm and kind and incredibly easy to root for. — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, "Enola Holmes Is Unlike Any Sherlock Story You've Seen Before—And That's a Good Thing," 23 Sep. 2020

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“Snooty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snooty. Accessed 10 Apr. 2021.

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snooty

adjective

English Language Learners Definition of snooty

informal + disapproving : having or showing the insulting attitude of people who think that they are better, smarter, or more important than other people

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snooty

adjective

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snootier; snootiest

Kids Definition of snooty

: rude and arrogant especially to people from a lower class

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