snooty
Adjective: 1. Behaving in a superior and disdainful manner; showing arrogant contempt for those considered inferior. This describes someone who acts as if they are better than others, often looking down on people they consider to be of lower social status, less sophisticated, or less important. 2. (Informal) Excessively proud or conceited; stuck-up. This sense emphasizes an inflated sense of self-importance and a snobbish attitude.
The word "snooty" is primarily used in informal contexts to criticize someone's arrogant and condescending behavior.
- The snooty waiter ignored us because we were dressed casually.
- She gave a snooty laugh when I mentioned the popular television show.
- Don't be so snooty about fast food; sometimes it's exactly what you want.
- They live in a snooty neighborhood where everyone seems to judge you.
- Tone: Using "snooty" often carries a tone of criticism or mockery. It suggests the speaker finds the person's arrogance to be unjustified, silly, or offensive.
- Connotation: It implies not just pride, but an active attitude of looking down on others, often related to perceived social class, taste, or education.
- "To get/become snooty": This phrase describes someone developing or displaying a snobbish attitude.
- Ever since she got that promotion, she's become really snooty with her old colleagues.
- Snoot (noun, informal): Can refer to the nose or, by extension, a snobbish person.
- He looked down his snoot at us.
- Snootily (adverb): In a snooty manner.
- She answered snootily.
- Snootiness (noun): The quality of being snooty.
- The snootiness of the club members was well-known.
- Snobbish: Having the character of a snob; condescending.
- Haughty: Arrogantly superior and disdainful.
- Supercilious: Behaving as if one thinks they are superior to others.
- Pretentious: Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed.
- Uppity (informal): Self-important; arrogant. (Note: This term has complex and offensive historical connotations in some contexts.)
- Humble
- Modest
- Down-to-earth
- Unpretentious
While "snooty" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it describes the behavior encapsulated in several common expressions: * To look down one's nose at someone/something: To regard with a feeling of superiority. * The art critic looked down his nose at the modern exhibition. * To turn one's nose up at something: To reject something with contempt. * She turned her nose up at the idea of a budget vacation.
- (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
- a snotty little scion of a degenerate family-Laurent Le Sage
- they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety