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• r  in a snobbish manner

• Tour member Barry Bonds snootily predicted Matsui would be lucky to hit 10 to 15 homers in his first season in America.
• One early issue, peering snootily over its lorgnette, inquired: "Now that the masses take baths every week, how can one ever distinguish the gentleman?".
• By rights, he should feel snootily superior to the joint, pouch his fee, and go back to Nottingham.

• snobbishly
• uppishly