Definition of snooty in English:

adjectivesnootier, snootiest

• Showing disapproval or contempt towards others, especially those considered to belong to a lower social class.

  ‘snooty neighbours’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Kelly was hardly alone in his contempt for the snooty officials.’
  • ‘That snooty neighbour of yours may be sitting in the same row and spot you during the intermission.’
  • ‘Most events are free, and even snooty elitists are welcome.’
  • ‘They've got a snooty superior liberalist attitude to the working-classes and conservatives alike.’
  • ‘I look shocked as the snooty little brat walked toward the office.’
  • ‘It was the same snooty disdain masking the deep hurt she was feeling.’
  • ‘She was my mother's mother, a proud, snooty woman who had never really forgiven my mom for marrying my dad.’
  • ‘The American arts fan, long mythologized as a snooty, wealthy elitist, is changing.’
  • ‘They always gave that stuck-up, snooty look to old technical teachers like me.’
  • ‘Where was the nasal nerdy voice, the plaid suit, the snooty know-it-all haughtiness?’
  • ‘I suppose they're going to get all snooty and start treating me like their personal assistant.’
  • ‘Plus, no snooty attitudes or other conventional store trappings allowed.’
  • ‘In a paranoid mood, one might interpret that as frosty, even snooty.’
  • ‘You like feeling snooty about other people who disagree with you.’
  • ‘This is the snooty tone of most of the reports on consumer debt.’
  • ‘These new northern pilgrims are less snooty than their colonising predecessors.’
  • ‘It made it a bit easier for us that even the snooty critics seemed to expect more of that electronic stuff.’
  • ‘When her snooty daughter visits, she is embarrassed by her relative poverty.’
  • ‘Many felt, however, that in the snooty world of racing he was made an example because of his background.’
  • ‘A young fugitive on a motorbike ran out of petrol and was kissed by the boss's snooty daughter as a dare.’

  Synonyms

  arrogant, proud, haughty, conceited, lofty, aloof, disdainful, superior, self-important, supercilious, exclusive

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