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sniffy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sniffy has 1 sense
- sniffy(s = adj.all) disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, supercilious, swaggering - having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sniffy, adj. colloq. (sniffier, sniffiest)
1 inclined to sniff.
2 disdainful; contemptuous.
1 inclined to sniff.
2 disdainful; contemptuous.
Derivative
sniffily adv. sniffiness n.
THESAURUS
sniffy
arrogant, asthmatic, breathing, clannish, cliquish, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, errhine, exclusive, expiratory, haughty, heaving, high-hat, huffing, inspiratory, nasal, panting, patronizing, pneumonic, priggish, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, respiratory, rhinal, scornful, sneering, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snoring, snorting, snotty, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, sternutatory, stertorous, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, wheezing, wheezy, withering
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