sniffy
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]
[also: sniffiest, sniffier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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