snooty

[snoo-tee]

adjective

Informal.

snootier, snootiest 

1. snobbish.

snooty

/ ˈsnuːtɪ /

adjective

1. aloof or supercilious

2. snobbish or exclusive

   a snooty restaurant

Other Word Forms

• snootily adverb
• snootiness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of snooty¹

First recorded in 1915–20; snoot + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, Lockjaw’s Perfidia fixation chafes against his desire to join a clique of snooty white nationalists invented for the film called the Christmas Adventurers Club.

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“Perhaps a terrible flaw but we felt perfectly satisfied with playing to a few thousand people and we were a bit snooty about it also,” he says.

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California had its own north/south rivalry, and Otis resented Northern Californians’ snooty perception of the “cow counties” south of the Tehachapi Mountains.

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By so doing, they fail to take out Trump’s dominance advantage while continuing to look like snooty elites.

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The city is not as snooty and pretentious as San Francisco.

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Related Words

• arrogant 
• condescending 
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• pompous 
• snobbish 

When To Use

What does snooty mean?

Snooty means snobby. It’s typically used to describe a person who thinks they have better taste or higher standards than other people and treats them in a condescending way because of it.Snooty is always used negatively. It’s often used to describe people that exclude others, typically due to the perception that others are not good enough. Snooty isn’t only applied to people—you can call a restaurant snooty, for example, if it’s overly exclusive.A snooty person can be called a snoot, which means the same thing as snob. But the adjective snooty is much more commonly used than the noun snoot.Example: The kids in my class are so snooty—they all just stick to their own cliques and don’t try to make friends with anyone else.