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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy;
- Example: "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"
- Example: "haughty aristocrats"
- Example: "his lordly manners were offensive"
- Example: "walked with a prideful swagger"
- Example: "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"
- Example: "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"
- Example: "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
[syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sniffy
    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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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