sniffy

• “Likewise, my exquisite abode in sniffy San Miguel.”

  Best Retirement Place for Berkeleyans

• “The only man with whom she had ever come in contact was her uncle, and he might have been described as a sniffy old man with a cold;”

  Here are Ladies

• “Well — kind of sniffy on personal lines, like he made work about the place and was late for meals.”

  Tied Up in Tinsel

• “Walter's case in the least, and that when they met the next time her manner towards him was what some persons term "sniffy," which was a manner Walter could not and would not abide.”

  The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life

• “Could have also been 'sniffy' as in sniffing for scent.”

  Althouse

• “Bobby McFerrin, LondonHardline jazz fans, and not a few players too, can be pretty sniffy about singers, but nobody's sniffy about Bobby McFerrin.”

  The Guardian: This week's new live music

• “I keep trying to stop myself being sniffy about this.”

  In Africa, where there are dreadlocks, there are white tourists being preyed upon

• “If you're sniffy about internet dating, there are a million other websites where you can get chatting with people of similar interests and goals, thousands of whom will be single.”

  The Guardian: If you're single, shut up and enjoy it

• “(His sniffy response when The Corrections was selected for Oprah's Book Club led to Oprah Winfrey rescinding her invitation.)”

  The Guardian: Jonathan Franzen picks up the torch for US literary tradition

• “Standard PCC critics? politicians, pressure group organisers, sniffy journalists, lawyers with a fee hole to fill? often talk as though "lay" was some kind of superior state rather than describing open minds unsullied by practical experience.”

  The Guardian: Press Complaints Commission gets smartened up

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