snottilyadv.
In a snotty manner.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [adverb] > contemptuously
lightlyOE
scornlichec1300
despitouslyc1320
hokerfullyc1330
scornfullyc1380
despisantly1389
deignouslyc1440
scorninglyc1440
contemningly1471
a-scornc1485
disdaininglyc1485
despiteouslya1500
disdainouslya1513
disdainishly?1529
a-swash1530
contemptuously1530
disdainfullya1533
despitefully1535
disdainedly1535
contemptibly1577
snuffingly1577
floutingly1580
despisingly1591
slightly1601
indignantly1602
contemptedly1605
overly1610
slightfully1627
despicably1637
slightingly1654
contemnibly1702
sneeringly1711
slightily1740
snottily1864
sniffingly1873
sufficiently1893
sniffily1902
pooh-poohingly1903
dismissively1922
the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adverb]
fastuously1654
pensily1725
with one's head in the air1788
pretentiously1848
uppishly1911
snottily1927
snootily1940
1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 816/2 ‘Of course I did,’ he replied, rather snottily I thought.
1937 J. T. Farrell Fellow Countrymen 180 A man in a hurry bumped into him, and hastening on, snottily suggested that he quit taking up the whole sidewalk.
1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 59 I had a face looking over my shoulder, no matter how snottily equivocal its expression.
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