The hotel receptionist was a bit snotty to me this morning.
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And finally, they are commonly laughed at by snotty ignoramuses who have evidently never been outside at night.
Even teaching Boyle's Law to snotty kids in a secondary modern would be better than this.
Girls thought I was snotty and strange, and guys avoided me.
She'd have thought I was just being snotty.
The picture bore no relation to the blotchy, snotty, shouting face of angry childhood.
They were belligerent, they were bellicose, they were snotty, they were downright rude.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who thinks they are better than other people►snob
someone who thinks that they are better than people from a lower social class: · Since going to university he'd become a snob, embarrassed by his family.· I don't want to sound like a snob, but I found the decor vulgar.
►snobbish
someone who is snobbish thinks that they are better than people from a lower class, so that they will not be friendly with them or do the things they do: · Some people find her snobbish, but she's really just shy.· his snobbish attitude to soap operas on TVsnobbish about: · She's very snobbish about people who live in the suburbs.
►stuck-up
informal someone who is stuck-up thinks that they are better than other people, and behaves in a proud, unfriendly way: · The children who go to that school are a bit stuck-up.· a pompous, stuck-up little man
►pompous
someone who is pompous tries to sound important, especially by using very long or formal words: · She found him pompous and annoying.· The headteacher gave a pompous speech about 'the values of learning'.
►self-important
thinking you are much more important than you really are: · As a waiter, he had grown to despise self-important customers.· He was one of those self-important little officials who made everyone call him "Sir".
►haughty
someone who is haughty behaves in a proud and very unfriendly way, as if they think other people are completely unimportant: · People thought of him as being haughty and difficult to talk to.· Jessica turned away with a haughty look on her face.
►snotty
informal rude and unfriendly because you think you are better than other people: · The hotel receptionist was a bit snotty to me this morning.· a bunch of snotty rich kids
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►snotty nose
(=with unpleasant thick liquid coming out)· a group of dirty children with snotty noses
1someone who is snotty is rude and annoying, especially because they think that they are more important than other people – used to show disapprovalSYN snooty: some snotty little clerk2wet and dirty with mucus