Definition of snooty
- a snooty store
the actress plays a genteel yet faintly snooty older woman
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1919
aloof, arrogant, haughty, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-handed, hoity-toity, huffy, imperious, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, supercilious, superior, uppity;
egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), prideful, self-conceited, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swelled-headed;
: 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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