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sniffish

[ snif-ish ]

adjective

  1. haughtily disdainful; contemptuous:

    a sniffish dowager.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of sniffish1

First recorded in 1920–25; sniff + -ish 1
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Example Sentences

There was always an admixture of delight, which tempered any inclination to be sniffish about the Americana that Thiebaud painted.

Moralistically sniffish, Cusins resists Undershaft's blandishments until the cagey old dialectician storms, "Dare you make war on war?"

State Department had been consistently sniffish and standoffish toward them; were they still to be ignored?

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