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snooty
adjective
arrogant, unpleasant, supercilious, snobbish UK, 1919- That Purple Gang was a hard lot of guys, so tough they made Capone’s playmates look like a kindergarten class, and Detroit’s snooty set used to feel it was really living to talk to them hoodlums without getting their ounce-brains blown out. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 92, 1946
- The Rediker’s social campaign is being managed by Leonard MacBain, elegant publicist and society arbiter of New York’s plush El Morocco, where the snootiest people on earth gather. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 139, 1951
- He was fed up with the snooty ones, the smart ones and the washed-up ones. Like his father. — John Burke and Stuart Douglass, The Boys, pp. 78–79, 1962
- There ain’t nobody snootier than an oilman who’s had to sell one of his Cadillacs. — Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show, p. 53, 1966
- “Your snooty pals are gonna miss you.” “Tell them I may come down for the polo matches. I’ll see.” — Elmore Leonard, Split Images, p. 72, 1981
- Well, it’s not because of her beauty / and her brand new low cut blouse / It’s not because she’s so snooty / or a fine famed millionaire — ZZ Top, If I Could Only Flag Her Down, 1983
- She’s a whimsical, tragical beauty / Uptight and little bit snooty. — Beck, Nitemare Hippy Girl, 1994
- I really wanted to walk over there and smack his snooty, wanky, tea-drinking face in and just keep smacking[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 149, 2001
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