as in aristocratic
being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior
the actress plays a genteel yet faintly snooty older woman
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Recent Examples of snooty
When scholarship student Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten) observes a scandalous secret within its walls, snooty millionaire heir James Beaufort (Damian Hardung) does his best to keep her quiet — igniting a spark between them neither can ignore.
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Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2025
Bartlett played a snooty author named Barbara Thorndyke who befriends Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur).
—Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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 sequel finds single mother Anna engaged to likable British chef Eric (Manny Jacinto) after just six months of dating, and surfer girl Harper and Eric's somewhat snooty daughter Lily don't get along at all.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
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Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2025
Bartlett played a snooty author named Barbara Thorndyke who befriends Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur).
—Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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 sequel finds single mother Anna engaged to likable British chef Eric (Manny Jacinto) after just six months of dating, and surfer girl Harper and Eric's somewhat snooty daughter Lily don't get along at all.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snooty
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Rosewood Schloss Fuschl, meanwhile, is located in the former hunting lodge of the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg, and its Munich branch sits at the former Bavarian State Bank headquarters and the adjacent Palais Neuhaus-Preysing, originally an aristocratic residence from the 1700s.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
4 Nov. 2025
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Federalist critics in Congress argued the colonnades looked aristocratic.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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So long as that situation continues, the 43-year-old’s allegedly arrogant and stand-offish treatment of his players will not worry the club hierarchy too much.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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The pilot opens with Powell’s character, arrogant college quarterback Russ Holliday, leading his Oregon Ducks team in the National Championship game against Georgia at the Rose Bowl.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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Prizegivers have also in the past been accused of being snobbish, of having an anti-American bias and of ignoring some of the giants of literature, including Russia's Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, France's Emile Zola and Ireland's James Joyce.—
Simon Johnson,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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The episode was about a fake Lord trying to check in to a seedy seaside hotel, and the snobbish Cleese character who runs the place gets fooled by him.—
Jonathan Margolis,
Air Mail,
20 Sep. 2025
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Kiss weathered cynicism and disinterest from the snobby New York music scene in their early months — Frehley worked as a taxi driver to pay the bills — but, crucially, united with manager Bill Aucoin in September 1973, who began plotting the band’s path to stardom with the bandmembers.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
16 Oct. 2025
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The actress was best known for her role as snobby social climber Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances, the BBC comedy that ran for five seasons between 1990 and 1995.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Snooty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snooty. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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