snootier; snootiest
1
: looking down the nose : showing disdain
2
: characterized by snobbery
a snooty store
snootily adverb
snootiness noun

Examples of snooty in a Sentence

the actress plays a genteel yet faintly snooty older woman
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There’s also a love triangle involving Bull, Honey, and a snooty Borzoi (Beck Bennett) which is meant to gird all of the self-conscious raunchiness with rom-com sweetness, and somehow makes the whole affair feel even more phony and half-baked. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025 The Poetry Society becomes the Autobiographical Association, whose ridiculous members write their memoirs under the supervision of the director, a snooty character clearly conniving to use their confessions for some sort of skulduggery. Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2025 Bartlett played a snooty author named Barbara Thorndyke who befriends Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur). Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025 What a snooty place until it’s recognized that the percentage of Americans possessing the courage to walk into all manner of high-end restaurants in Manhattan, Beverly Hills and Malibu would similarly be of the .0001 percent small. John Tamny, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for snooty

Word History

First Known Use

1919, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of snooty was in 1919

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“Snooty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snooty. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.

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snooty

adjective
snootier; snootiest
snootily adverb
snootiness noun
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