How to Use snooty in a Sentence

snooty

adjective
  • And then there's a blonde and pretty girl that seems snooty to me.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Some snooty girl in a poncho takes a seat next to her in the lobby.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2023
  • My snooty pet peeve now feels like the apex of pre-pandemic luxury.
    — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Even your snooty neighbor will be jealous of this fruit and vegetable garden.
    — Fox News, 30 July 2019
  • Why be so exclusive, like the playoffs are some snooty country club?
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • This is the eponymous island, whose humble folk live apart from a class of snooty plutocrats.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
  • And what about the snooty spot for Bic lighters with Snoop and Martha Stewart?
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 20 July 2022
  • No more waiting on the phone and pleading with snooty receptionists.
    — Stephanie Strom, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Tablecloths, a nice cheese selection, a bit of grandness, never snooty.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Real New Yorkers are far too snooty to see Chicago.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Actor David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as the snooty Maj.
    — Carlos Lozano, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Particularly his wife, who’s in the running to join a snooty women’s club.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 7 June 2026
  • 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
  • And her positioning as the snooty posh one is more complicated.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020
  • But people who only watch Kubrick films for fun are both insufferably snooty and lying to you.
    — Julia Pugachevsky, Cosmopolitan, 12 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her sitcom lampoons snooty New Yorkers whose parenting skills are not enhanced by their wealth.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Drag stars Ginger Minj and Jujubee climb abroad as train attendants who tangle with the snooty first-class crew.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 May 2026
  • Don't expect white tablecloths and a snooty ambiance; the culinary gem prides itself on its fun and casual atmosphere.
    — Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Renee gets a plum promotion from snooty boss Avery LeClair (Williams).
    — Jocelyn Noveck, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2018

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