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
But Steve plays a ‘man of the people’ author who goes to a snooty New England college where his daughter teaches.
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
The romance plot continues to bleed into Miss Night and Day’s finale even as the series gives over fully to its grim thriller as, after a bunch of red herrings, the murderer is finally revealed to be the snooty, though seemingly harmless, intern Na Ok-hui (Bae Hae-sun) aka Gong Eum-sim.
—Geoffrey Bunting, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
Most populists lament that the state has been led astray by a snooty establishment in bed with immigrants, minorities, atheists, and intellectuals.
—Yascha Mounk, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
Sebastian Stan plays pre-Twitter-fingers Trump in the 1970s, right before the man was anybody but a snooty rich kid from Queens.
—Zoe Guy, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
The romance plot continues to bleed into Miss Night and Day’s finale even as the series gives over fully to its grim thriller as, after a bunch of red herrings, the murderer is finally revealed to be the snooty, though seemingly harmless, intern Na Ok-hui (Bae Hae-sun) aka Gong Eum-sim.
—Geoffrey Bunting, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
Most populists lament that the state has been led astray by a snooty establishment in bed with immigrants, minorities, atheists, and intellectuals.
—Yascha Mounk, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
Sebastian Stan plays pre-Twitter-fingers Trump in the 1970s, right before the man was anybody but a snooty rich kid from Queens.
—Zoe Guy, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snooty
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The mood was one of happy improvisation, a sort of aristocratic Fawlty Towers art-directed by Slim Aarons.Nick Foulkes, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
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Hotel Esencia | Originally the private home of an Italian Duchess located 45-minutes north of Tulum, Esencia maintains its aristocratic character in the hands of owner Kevin Wendle.Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Manji will appear as Crispin, an arrogant, pompous employee at a fancy, high-end hardware store who snubs George.Katie Campione, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2024
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My 21-year-old grandson is a dramatic and arrogant know-it-all.Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
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Even the words connote a pedigree of snobbish good taste that evokes Ratatouille’s Anton Ego.Leo Kirts, Them, 19 July 2024
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But even the most snobbish viewer could see that William Wellman’s The Ox-Bow Incident was no ordinary Western.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
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And that led us to an aesthetic that combines our sense of humor and our obtuse, snobby art rock sensibility.Bill Kopp, SPIN, 30 Oct. 2024
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McNab first garnered attention in Addams Family Values (1993) as a snobby camper who looks down on Wednesday.Danny Horn, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2024
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“Snooty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snooty. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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