How to Use snooty in a Sentence

snooty

adjective
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  • And what about the snooty spot for Bic lighters with Snoop and Martha Stewart?
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 20 July 2022
  • Some snooty girl in a poncho takes a seat next to her in the lobby.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The beauty of drag-racing in the water is that the competitors aren’t snooty with the fans.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Actor David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as the snooty Maj.
    — Carlos Lozano, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Some scenes seem ready-made for it, like the first time Ada sets eyes on the ravishing Dior dress hanging in the wardrobe of a snooty client and goes all gaga.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2022
  • Waters is an icon even in the snooty world of interiors.
    — Matthew Marden., Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Design is not about being snooty and off-puttingly chic.
    — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2022
  • My snooty pet peeve now feels like the apex of pre-pandemic luxury.
    — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 17 Feb. 2021
  • There's a lot of potential in the idea of Wednesday Addams forced to try and fit into a student body of snooty rich kids.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Stubbs paid tribute to the true heart of the man best known for his snooty portrayal of Major Winchester.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Why be so exclusive, like the playoffs are some snooty country club?
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Even your snooty neighbor will be jealous of this fruit and vegetable garden.
    — Fox News, 30 July 2019
  • This is the eponymous island, whose humble folk live apart from a class of snooty plutocrats.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
  • After her car breaks down, Beatriz is invited to sit with the guests, many of whom are snooty social climbers.
    — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 12 June 2017
  • Nothing sucks the life out fine art like the snooty aspirational baggage that can cling to it like toilet paper on the heel of a shoe.
    — Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Dumping on Paltrow can seem almost too easy — a knee-jerk reaction by a snooty art world that doesn’t want Gwyneth to have nice things.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022
  • No more waiting on the phone and pleading with snooty receptionists.
    — Stephanie Strom, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Roberts would have been able to repeat one of her greatest on-screen lines, as told to a snooty shop assistant in Pretty Woman.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 19 May 2022
  • Rachel is probably having an affair with a rich dad from their kids’ snooty private school.
    — Karla Petersoncolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Renee gets a plum promotion from snooty boss Avery LeClair (Williams).
    — Jocelyn Noveck, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Horror? Pitiless tsk-tsking from snooty British scolds?
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 6 July 2017
  • But people who only watch Kubrick films for fun are both insufferably snooty and lying to you.
    — Julia Pugachevsky, Cosmopolitan, 12 Dec. 2017
  • And what about later at Pop’s when FP subtly made fun of Alice for being snooty for sipping her coffee with her pinky out.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 29 Jan. 2018
  • His turn as snooty girlfriend Regine, who has electric physical responses to her boyfriend’s kisses, was over-the-top enough to cause his costars to break.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • But despite what Etsy (or Instagram, or a snooty relative) tells you, a save-the-date card is not a subpoena.
    — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
  • And her positioning as the snooty posh one is more complicated.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The thought of European wine imports may conjure an image of snooty, high-end Burgundy and Bordeaux bottles.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2020
  • But snooty upscale communities aren’t the only ones putting up roadblocks to new housing.
    — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • But isn’t there some non-snooty way to ask concert newcomers not to applaud, loudly and long, after every movement?
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Her sitcom lampoons snooty New Yorkers whose parenting skills are not enhanced by their wealth.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2017

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