Example Sentences

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His character met Diane Keaton there and snottily ordered “alfalfa sprouts and mashed yeast.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

There is no excuse, or even a phony rationale, for pronouncing it that way other than some haughty sense that it sounds more erudite, the way some people will snottily pronounce the “t” in “often.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2018

Not up to Corner's standard, we thought, rather snottily.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2013

There's little to explain how they got from there to 1993's fantastic Modern Life Is Rubbish, beyond the snottily purposeful single Popscene.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2012

Via said snottily to the two of us.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio