Sniffy

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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