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sniffy

a. 1 disdainful; haughty. 2 characterised by sniffing.

WordNet
sniffy
  1. adj. 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"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, lordly, prideful, supercilious, swaggering]

  2. [also: sniffiest, sniffier]

Usage examples of "sniffy".

He was a sniffy little man with the curt and superior manner that distinguishes career bureaucrats.

Anything is good to boys and billy-goats, but edjicated insides is sniffy, they tell me.

McDougal examined carefully the soles of her shoes, after which she took up her hat and smoothed the breast of the once sniffy duck.

And she just looked at me all sniffy and serious and said, Yes, you may laugh at me now.

The receptionist might have been sniffy, but not once he saw that Royal Sector pass.

I reflected that Sniffy was a bit too thick in the head to take it in.