How to Use snooty in a Sentence

snooty

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Oscars will never be the place for snooty cinephiles like myself to exercise our theories and pet squabbles.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • She’s won every lead-up award for her performance as a grieving mother stuck at a snooty boarding school over Christmas.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The very title of the film seemed to invite glib headlines and snooty remarks about the overweening ambition of the grandiose filmmaker who was caught waist deep in the big muddy of the Vietnam of his mind.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2024

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