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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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.
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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
Also enjoyable are Drew Bradford as Harvard law clerk Emmett and Vivian Romero as Warner’s snooty girlfriend Vivienne.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2024
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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
Also enjoyable are Drew Bradford as Harvard law clerk Emmett and Vivian Romero as Warner’s snooty girlfriend Vivienne.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2024
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The child is expected to enter as 11th in the British line of succession to the throne, and inherit an aristocratic title from Edo's side of the family.Janine Henni, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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This kind of true aristocratic interior could be a little bit threadbare.Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 29 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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Will, the outrageously arrogant master of the backhanded compliment, brings out the jealous streak in his brother, who’s taken aback by Will’s unscheduled return from Los Angeles under secretive circumstances.Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 24 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 9 Nov. 2024.
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