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
a snotty contempt for those brash parvenus who moved into the cookie-cutter mansion next door
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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.
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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
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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
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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snotty
Adjective
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His aristocratic tastes are reflected in his various building projects, the remains of which have been excavated.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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In The Pink Panther, Cardinale starred as the wealthy Princess Dala, whose priceless diamond becomes the target of an aristocratic jewel thief played by David Niven.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Sep. 2025
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Jean stepped out as Nia approached—lean and arrogant, a cigarette pinched between her lips.—
David Wright Faladé,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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Gil, her nemesis, is hot, arrogant and unfortunately extremely kissable.—
Audrey Goldberg Ruoff,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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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
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Dismissed by the snooty London music industry in the early 2000s because of their accents, the pair reinvented themselves as Silibil N’ Brains, anarchic hard-partying MCs from the U.S. West Coast (and not, in fact, from Dundee).—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
5 Sep. 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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An unusual - and slightly snobbish - pairing?—
Elisabetta Tosi,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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And my snobby film school friends and I would accuse those books of turning everything into a formula.—
John Bleasdale,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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With the camel’s back broken, Dorothy Scott, summoning all her righteous indignation (and channeled with maybe one-third of Audra McDonald’s extraordinary talent, which is still enough to power the city of Manhattan), lets the snobby scold have it.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Snotty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snotty. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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