Examples of snooty in a Sentence

the actress plays a genteel yet faintly snooty older woman

Recent Examples on the Web Polly Walker remains a snooty hoot as the scheming Lady Featherington, whose efforts to secure her family's financial situation are complicated by the arrival of her late husband's brother. — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2022 Why be so exclusive, like the playoffs are some snooty country club? — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2022 Nixon is Ada Brook, the more kindly sister of Christine Baranski’s snooty socialite Agnes, with the spinsters’ stuffy mansion sitting opposite a palatial townhouse constructed by the newest wealthy family on the block. — Liam Hess, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2022 Dumping on Paltrow can seem almost too easy — a knee-jerk reaction by a snooty art world that doesn’t want Gwyneth to have nice things. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022 Initially, at least, Fellowes seems to be engaging in his trademark convenient plotting, as the snooty Agnes abruptly decides to engage Peggy as her secretary. — oregonlive, 22 Jan. 2022 There are as many expressions of scotch as there are angels nipping at every whisky cask in the Hebrides and as there are snooty grammarians who want to take the fun out of the pursuit of incredible liquor. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2021 Irons barely modifies his English accent to play the wan, snooty Rodolfo, while Al Pacino (as his brother Aldo) turns the chairman of the company into a charming, if gnomish, Italian mascot. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021 And although The New Yorker is predictably snooty about the notion of mastery in a few hours, MasterClass is one of the few online education players to reach New York Times million-student status and was recently valued at nearly $3 billion. — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021 See More

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