adjective
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of, relating to, or resembling snuff
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covered with or smelling of snuff
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unpleasant; disagreeable
Other Word Forms
- snuffiness noun
Etymology
Origin of snuffy
Example Sentences
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Born in 1885, in a grimy coal-mining village in Nottingham shire, Lawrence soon grew, as he himself said, into "a delicate pale brat with a snuffy nose" who "trotted after his mother like a shadow."
From Time Magazine Archive
The American's eyes came back from their inspection of all this and rested with a new expression on his rather snuffy, rather stout and undistinguished host.
From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy
Jean François says there isn't any greater creative force in this world for pity than a very tearful, snuffy, turned-up, little girl-nose.
From Memories of a Musical Life by Mason, William
Mary Wortley was there, young and beautiful; and Mary Wortley, old, hideous, and snuffy.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
To-night this did not seem likely, for Urbain de la Marini�re came in after dinner, and the snuffy, sharp-faced little Cur� of Lancilly was there too.
From Angelot A Story of the First Empire by Price, Eleanor C. (Eleanor Catherine)
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