snooting

verb

present participle of snoot
as in disdaining
to show contempt for after some modest success, the singer began to snoot the very people who had helped her get her career off the ground

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snooting
  1. disdaining
  2. hating
  3. disrespecting
  4. despising
Verb
  • As was ever the case, the Babe returned fire, answering the heckles by mocking the Cubs players and disdaining their fans.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
Definition of disdaining
Verb
  • The president has a long history of hating on Somalia and Somali immigrants to this country.
    — Miles Bryan, Vox, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The actors will soon slip into their 1967 costumes as the impoverished Greasers and the privileged Socs — and spend the next two hours hating each other onstage.
    — Jenelle Riley, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of hating
Verb
  • Some users accused Mbappé of profiting off the lucrative Chinese sports markets and his millions of fans in the country while disrespecting their national sentiments.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Oakley and Dolan have long feuded, with Oakley accusing Dolan of treating him less favorably than other Knicks legends, including by not providing him complimentary tickets and allegedly disrespecting him in other ways.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of disrespecting
Verb
  • For example, Scalia famously cast the deciding vote in 1989 to hold unconstitutional a law criminalizing burning the American flag despite being a big patriot and despising such activities.
    — Brian Fitzpatrick, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026
  • In a classic enemies-to-lovers plot, Sully and Helen go from despising one another to falling head over heels.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 29 June 2026
Definition of despising
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“Snooting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snooting. Accessed 30 Oct. 2026.

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