How to Use snotty in a Sentence

snotty

adjective

• No, thank you, keep your snotty-nosed children to yourselves.
  — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
• That awful snotty mess that your toddler gifted to you on the way to school drop-off this morning?
  — Allison Hope, Quartz at Work, 6 Jan. 2020
• The ones who didn’t know me would take one look at this snotty-nosed, bucktoothed, egg-headed 11-year-old and think easy money.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
• Then her laughter turned to wet, snotty, red-eyed sobbing.
  — Okwiri Oduor, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• Your entire church group, friend group, neighbors and their snotty kids do not need to see or hold your baby.
  — Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
• Instead of coming home with a snotty nose, is your child going to bring back the coronavirus?
  — Marshall Allen, ProPublica, 23 May 2020
• What for anybody else would be a gross, snotty mess was elegant and meme-worthy for Bey.
  — Sam Tornow, Billboard, 2 July 2018
• But her Snow White is fresh, a little snotty but highly capable, with far more grit than her Prince.
  — Karen Valby, New York Times, 4 May 2018
• Katsoupis is more of a snotty provocateur with the elegance to posture as deep.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• Its brightening presence combats both shivers and snotty noses and makes a chirrupy cover on the grayest of winter days.
  — Emma Elwick-Bates, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2022
• The classmates who confront her come off as snotty mean girls who need to forgive their friend and get over it, not people sticking up for a survivor of revenge porn.
  — Nico Lang, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Apr. 2017
• On July 2, whoever’s in charge of this account issued a snotty tweet.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 July 2021
• But for some, the resurgence of trees and grass can trigger seasonal allergies, and turn springtime into a sneezy, snotty mess.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2019
• Rothe is believable as the snotty sorority sister, the scared and confused murder victim, and the strong woman who finds clues about her killer with each death.
  — Rick Bentley, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
• Jaime Lannister, Olenna Tyrell, that snotty little kid at the Vale—with points awarded as soon as a character gets killed off.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 11 July 2017
• Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce, a guitarist-drummer duo, make knotty, snotty garage pop that’s downright vital.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• The reports, however, make no mention of how Soviet occupiers would have coped with hordes of young, loud and snotty Britons.
  — Nathan Hodge, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2008
• Why induct these snotty kids when there are still older acts with (arguably) worthy resumes still sitting on the sidelines?
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2017
• At the beginning of the episode, Coogan plays a pretentious, snotty character, a familiar angle for the performer.
  — Peter Allen Clark, Time, 17 Jan. 2020
• Through their snotty moniker and oddball visual antics, London’s Los Bitchos wear their sardonic sense of humor on their sleeves.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 26 Jan. 2022
• Unlike Roman, who slicks his hair back but often refuses to wear a tie, Greg can’t pull off snotty dishevelment.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
• Spots, blotches, stripes, snotty secretions, urine and even bones and digits glowed after exposure to blue light.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• Steve also picked up honorable mentions with St.-Ick, a sketchy Santa, and confectious, what a snotty 4-year-old’s birthday cake can be.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• At a time when a lot of American punk was aimed at snotty suburban teens, the Dropkicks came with painfully earnest songs about traditional values and civic pride.
  — Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2018
• As frustrating and difficult as that can be, coughing, snotty noses, fevers, and weird rashes typically pass with time and the right treatment.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 1 Nov. 2023
• Resurrecting their masked and anonymous side project Network for the first time in 15 years, Green Day dropped this snotty, proudly punkish slam of the president and his older daughter.
  — Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
• Snapping between screams and whispers, his voice, a far weatherbeaten cry from the snotty pop hooks of Brand New's early work, held through haunting and defiant.
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2017
• The mucus plug looks like bigger chunks of gelatinous, thick, and yellowish-white liquid with a snotty consistency.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 6 July 2023
• In the wrong hands, that hook would be overly confrontational or even snotty, but Gayle blurts out her declarations with a confidence that also doesn’t push too hard.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2022
• Whole families arranged themselves around him; without prompting, Brazile put a snotty toddler on his knee.
  — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024