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Recent Examples of snotty What’s often forgotten about The Bad News Bears is just how wonderfully snotty, off-putting, and downright awful Walter Matthau’s collection of young misfits are. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 25 July 2025 By design, the reactions his hulking, initially gentle presence inspires from Tehran bureaucratic authorities, elite fail-sons, and snotty business owners speak volumes more than any of his actual dialogue. Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024 Watch out Mucinex Man, when season 12 of The Masked Singer starts in September, one of the new costumes might just give you a run for your snotty money. Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 July 2024 Related Articles Ask Amy: Co-worker has a heavy box, and my questions about it are heavier Miss Manners: The rich parents were quite snotty in asking me for money Dear Abby: Is a group text the way to deliver my bad news? Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 2 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for snotty
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Adjective
  • Jessica Capshaw as Blythe HartCapshaw plays Blythe, Don's wife and the matriarch of an aristocratic Nashville family.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Oct. 2025
  • His aristocratic tastes are reflected in his various building projects, the remains of which have been excavated.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Some might see you as arrogant.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Jackson returns as Wes Bryant, a handsome, intelligent, but arrogant man who had just moved to Seattle and was revealed to be a new medical intern at Grey Sloan.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Don't expect white tablecloths and a snooty ambiance; the culinary gem prides itself on its fun and casual atmosphere.
    Gabi De la Rosa, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Chiefs fans likely will remember Aikman’s snooty social-media message, which was shared exactly six years ago Tuesday.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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“Snotty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snotty. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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