What is "snooty"

Usage examples of "snooty".

I reminded her that she was still weak from her recent lung attack, but she said her kids had just as much right to listen to the radio as the kids of any snooty hoi polloi bastard that works in some bank!

It didn't surprise her when Webster simply double-parked and, ignoring the snooty glares from an elegant couple and their three equally stylish Afghan hounds, flipped on his On Duty light and joined her on the curb.

Estelle Oppers was always giving her snooty looks, but Norma Kay was proud of its bright yellow color and the perky little flip like she wore when she was a starter on the Coffeyville varsity team twenty-five years ago.

In it, I can accept invitations to all but the snootiest of cocktail parties, pose as a mourner at any funeral, make court appearances, conduct surveillance, hustle clients, interview hostile witnesses, traffic with known felons, or pass myself off as a gainfully employed person instead of a freelance busybody accustomed to blue jeans, turtlenecks, and tennis shoes.

The snooty New England cheekbones, the wide, sexy mouth, angular nose, the big, doe eyes.

The Slammers had taken these prisoners, and if the Gendarmery wanted to get snooty about it, the Slammers could take the prisoners away from their present guards any time they wanted to.

You know that Duchess of Swingleton, the snooty little jamtart who's supposed to be the daughter of Grand Duchess Olga of Sector Twenty?

That snooty stinker that's supposed to be the daughter of the Grand Duchess?

My oldest brother works in the City for one of the snootier investment banks.

That snooty tone of voice, the precise diction, and the shield of parentlike solemnity—Archer almost made an unpleasant sound, but decided to just walk in instead.

They do not even turn their heads to gape up at the ruined shack, the chief's car, the pickup truck - which Wendell instantly recognizes - and the men standing on the beaten grass, two of whom are Dale Gilbertson and the pickup's owner, Hollywood Jack Sawyer, that snooty L.

For one thing, he looked meaner than a rattlesnake, with his squinty eyes, fancy hair swept back in a televangelist's pompador, and snooty sneer.

I usually eat breakfast on Sundays at Ruby Bee's, but I wasn't about to stick my nose in there until I received apologies from several different parties, all of whom had been snootier than a nursery-school teacher the previous night.

He hurried to his rooms to dress, for he was going to step out that night to one of the city's snootiest supper clubs where he knew he would meet and have at least a few.