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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective (sniffier; -est) Date: 1871 having or expressing a haughty attitude ; disdainful, supercilious • sniffily adverb • sniffiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. colloq. (sniffier, sniffiest) 1 inclined to sniff. 2 disdainful; contemptuous. Derivatives: sniffily adv. sniffiness n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sniffier, sniffiest) Someone who is sniffy about something does not think it is of high quality, perhaps unfairly. (INFORMAL) Some people are a bit sniffy about television. ADJ: oft ADJ about n

Moby Thesaurus

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