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Recent Examples of sniffish
Located across the street from the Manor, a 123-room faux-French extravaganza formerly owned by Aaron and Candy Spelling, Smith’s house appears almost to have been built in sniffish reaction to its neighbor.
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Robert Haskell,
WSJ,
9 Sep. 2022
There was always an admixture of delight, which tempered any inclination to be sniffish about the Americana that Thiebaud painted.
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Washington Post,
27 Dec. 2021
Robert Haskell,
WSJ,
9 Sep. 2022
There was always an admixture of delight, which tempered any inclination to be sniffish about the Americana that Thiebaud painted.
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Washington Post,
27 Dec. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sniffish
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Storied animation producer Bonnie Arnold gave short shrift to those who are snobbish about her beloved discipline at Annecy today.
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Hytes, Season 13’s winner Symone, and Season 15’s Marcia Marcia Marcia, who is credited in the film by her real name Marty Lauter, play a trio of snobbish train attendants on the luxurious Glamazonian Hyper Speed Rail.
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As such, lionfish possess the haughty confidence of an apex predator.
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For one, Columbus’s face wears the haughtiest, most cocksure expression in Lewis’s body of work.
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This Cannes Directors’ Fortnight prizewinner sets out its pitch-black-comic stall early with a prologue in which, after a brief contretemps, local man Raoul Brun (Jean-Louis Coulloc’h) blows his supercilious neighbor’s head off with a shotgun and then disappears.
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After appearing as supercilious EPA company man Walter Peck in Ghostbusters, Atherton completed his trilogy of goofy comedies with Real Genius (1985) and Bio-Dome (1996).
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The passage is incoherent, yet, in conflating progressive reform with arrogant blind faith, it is perfectly suited to Vance’s cynical conservatism.
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To no one’s surprise, Bonnie is immediately transfixed by her Lilypad (voiced by Greta Lee, whose arrogant smarm effectively threads the needle between Maya Hawke’s Anxiety and Regina George’s everything else).
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The Nuggets were particularly cavalier with second-rounders in the 2024 offseason, which turned out to be Booth’s last at the helm.
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The testimony consistently deployed a cavalier attitude about money.
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But there’s much to like here — from the two leads, the numerous Bay Area shots (the Golden Gate Bridge should get a supporting actor credit), Nick Offerman as a pretentious, cruel chef and Lukas Gage as a clueless cretin love interest/coworker.
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Not to sound pretentious, but Elwood Dowd is sort of like a Christlike figure.
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Of course, Kane has loftier aspirations, as England seeks its second-ever World Cup title — and its first since 1966.
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But if the workers vanish, so will the lofty numbers, advocates say.
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Jim Parsons, too, understands the assignment as Rose's gold-digging mother, as do our adorably charming Jack Dawson (Rousouli) and hilariously uppity Cal (John Riddle).
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Steve Fields serves lobster tails and filet mignon, but its proprietor likes to think of the restaurant as D-FW’s affordable steakhouse — a place that isn’t too uppity.
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“Sniffish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sniffish. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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