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
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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 grand seigneur, imbued with every instinct of luxury and refinement, became a snuffy old hermit, uncared for, not properly waited on, feeding badly, and living in one room.
From The Heart of a Woman by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
Where the ancient snuffbox, where his snuffy old pocket-handkerchief?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 by Various
And it gave me a queer feeling, I can tell you, to think of Elsie—my Elsie—teaching alongside that snuffy old badger.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
What quondam collector at Rome but must recollect that snuffy and gruffy old fellow, Ignazio Vesconali, who lives at the bottom of Scalirata, and has grown old with the Piazza itself!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
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