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Meanings of sniffy in English

Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.

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Examples for "haughty"
Examples for "haughty"
1
Supported by Assyria, the kings of Israel had become powerful and haughty.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
2
Really the proud and the haughty have no luck in this world.
Impressions and Comments
3
Although still haughty, his voice was clearly chagrined at his narrow escape.
The adventures of button
4
The gentleman looked at him sideways and answered in a haughty manner:
Original Short Stories — Volume 09
5
But Sina was haughty; she slighted the sisters and treated them shamefully.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
1
Occasionally, Mr. Clay was very imperious and displayed bad temper in debate.
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 / of Sixty Years in the National ...
2
The words were civil, but the tone was imperious in the extreme.
A True Friend: A Novel
3
Hunger and fatigue were forgotten in the face of this imperious necessity.
In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant
4
This imperious girl belonged, of course, in the camp of the enemy.
A Man Four-Square
5
He was neither haughty in his language, nor imperious in his demeanour.
La Vendée
1
Geoffrey said it gave him a cold, disdainful look and passed on.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
2
I never knew an animal could be disdainful until I met Sasha.
Origin
3
This in a disdainful tone, and the white teeth clicked softly together.
Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.
4
The pursuing fighters came on, almost disdainful of their quarry's defensive efforts.
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
5
After that Nana pointed with disdainful action at the stands and continued:
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
1
The flatter the land grew, the broader did the lordly river become.
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
2
Wolfbrand, too, was seen in the strife bearing him in lordly wise.
The Nibelungenlied
3
But I like the fiction of a lordly ordering of the repast.
Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
4
And on this wise would one of the lordly young men speak:
The Odyssey of Homer
5
I'll make you rich in goods and give you the lordly robes.
The Nibelungenlied
1
An inquiry found police actions were overbearing and infringed on civil rights.
Radio NZ
2
Parents should be overbearing either, but instead encourage children healthy online behaviour.
The South African
3
Many Latin American states see their northern neighbour as overbearing and exploitative.
Reuters
4
There was also criticism of the overbearing corporate nature of the Games.
The Guardian
5
Many Latin American states see their northern neighbor as overbearing and exploitative.
Reuters
1
Craig straightened in his seat; but not as before in attitude supercilious.
Where the Trail Divides
2
A moment later, he shoots me that supercilious look of the über-geeky.
Geektastic
3
Yet there was nothing sarcastic or supercilious in the way Ames spoke.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
4
He was no longer the drawling, supercilious naval officer in resplendent uniform.
Boy Scouts in a Submarine; Or, Searching an Ocean Floor
5
You can see him; and passed on with a somewhat supercilious air.
A Chance Acquaintance
1
We've seen this swaggering, falsely confident boor at least once too often.
The Irish Times
2
However, this week the posturing ended up on swaggering, if unintended, show.
The Irish Times
3
He was swaggering-toofriendly; not my idea of a gentleman at all.
Desert Gold
4
The new movie is jammed with fireball explosions and swaggering criminal badasses.
BBC
5
Celtic seem intent on staggering rather than swaggering across the finishing line.
The Irish Times
1
Young men, chests puffed out, swagger around the cars like prideful lions.
The whore of babylon, a memoir
2
I feared that I'd been prideful and mistaken to make him leave.
Song of the Nile
3
Cab drivers hailed him as a likely fare, to his prideful content.
Sixes and Sevens
4
Lowry regarded it as nonsense at best, prideful and blasphemous at worst.
The half-made world
5
I didn't have it; at that point I was still prideful.
Ebony
Usage of sniffy in English
1
ARE, the smart set getting a bit sniffy this week about Barbados?
The Irish Times
2
But his own party has been just as sniffy about vocational education.
The Guardian
3
It's on his 1972 Christmas album, which normally gets sniffy write ups.
The Guardian
4
Some charity chiefs are actually quite sniffy about our public efforts.
The Guardian
5
He seemed a bit sniffy about it; maybe something was lost in translation.
The Irish Times
6
People were much more sniffy about adding things than removing them.
The Guardian
7
Other journalists get a bit sniffy when considering the role of motoring correspondents.
The Irish Times
8
Bearded sniffy old men sitting and demanding that we bear children.
Main Street
9
I wish now that we hadn't been so sniffy about W.M.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life
10
We're as common as dirt-yes ,andthat sniffy lady friend of yours, too.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
11
Nick's sniffy manner told me he bloody well knew what a lacuna was.
The Lost Sisterhood
12
Stateside footnotes: The New York Times rather sniffy review of Kodaline's Bowery Ballroom gig.
The Irish Times
13
The Sunday Times was gratifying but the Times was sniffy.
The Guardian
14
He only answered in monosyllables, which prompted a sniffy reaction.
Melnitz
15
Maybe later on I'll get cold and critical and sniffy.
Daddy-Long-Legs
16
The Dead Don't Die has prompted a more sniffy response.
The Guardian
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