How to Use snotty in a Sentence

snotty

adjective
  • No, thank you, keep your snotty-nosed children to yourselves.
    — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • My, how the snotty, rich, entitled, know-it-all kid has fallen.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Your entire church group, friend group, neighbors and their snotty kids do not need to see or hold your baby.
    — Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • That awful snotty mess that your toddler gifted to you on the way to school drop-off this morning?
    — Allison Hope, Quartz at Work, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Instead of coming home with a snotty nose, is your child going to bring back the coronavirus?
    — Marshall Allen, ProPublica, 23 May 2020
  • What for anybody else would be a gross, snotty mess was elegant and meme-worthy for Bey.
    — Sam Tornow, Billboard, 2 July 2018
  • Katsoupis is more of a snotty provocateur with the elegance to posture as deep.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Don't hand us your snotty tissues, dirty diapers, or toenail clippings.
    — Seventeen, 6 May 2017
  • Its brightening presence combats both shivers and snotty noses and makes a chirrupy cover on the grayest of winter days.
    — Emma Elwick-Bates, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Why induct these snotty kids when there are still older acts with (arguably) worthy resumes still sitting on the sidelines?
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2017
  • On July 2, whoever’s in charge of this account issued a snotty tweet.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 July 2021
  • Spots, blotches, stripes, snotty secretions, urine and even bones and digits glowed after exposure to blue light.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
  • But her Snow White is fresh, a little snotty but highly capable, with far more grit than her Prince.
    — Karen Valby, New York Times, 4 May 2018
  • But for some, the resurgence of trees and grass can trigger seasonal allergies, and turn springtime into a sneezy, snotty mess.
    — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2019
  • Their snotty eldest son, Kit (Jago Bilderbeck), seems to take after his dad.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Whole families arranged themselves around him; without prompting, Brazile put a snotty toddler on his knee.
    — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Roman has modes other than snotty sarcasm, and even seems to experience stirrings of concern for others.
    — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The mucus plug looks like bigger chunks of gelatinous, thick, and yellowish-white liquid with a snotty consistency.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The mucus plug looks like bigger chunks of gelatinous, thick, and yellowish-white liquid with a snotty consistency.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Rothe is believable as the snotty sorority sister, the scared and confused murder victim, and the strong woman who finds clues about her killer with each death.
    — Rick Bentley, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Unlike Roman, who slicks his hair back but often refuses to wear a tie, Greg can’t pull off snotty dishevelment.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
  • As frustrating and difficult as that can be, coughing, snotty noses, fevers, and weird rashes typically pass with time and the right treatment.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce, a guitarist-drummer duo, make knotty, snotty garage pop that’s downright vital.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Your snotty liberal correspondent would be surprised at how many secret right-wingers there are in East Hampton.
    — Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The reports, however, make no mention of how Soviet occupiers would have coped with hordes of young, loud and snotty Britons.
    — Nathan Hodge, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2008
  • Through their snotty moniker and oddball visual antics, London’s Los Bitchos wear their sardonic sense of humor on their sleeves.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • At the beginning of the episode, Coogan plays a pretentious, snotty character, a familiar angle for the performer.
    — Peter Allen Clark, Time, 17 Jan. 2020
  • In the wrong hands, that hook would be overly confrontational or even snotty, but Gayle blurts out her declarations with a confidence that also doesn’t push too hard.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Russell, who lives in Driver’s neighborhood, was gossiping on the sofa about snotty Brooklyn preschools.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
  • At the end of last season, Ava drunkenly emailed some snotty producers a list of Deborah’s biggest faults, right before her father died.
    — Caroline Framke, Variety, 6 May 2022

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