Meaning of sniffingly | Babel Free

Definitions

1. With a sniffing sound or action.
2. With haughty disapproval.

Examples

“All during the night the riding ponies had grazed in close⟳ proximity to the house, had stamped about it, and occasionally had put⟳ their noses to its cracks, sniffingly to satisfy⟳ either curiosity or a desire for human companionship.”

“Philip Hone sniffingly noted in his diary that "they increase⟳ our taxes, eat⟳ our bread and encumber our streets, and not one in twenty is competent to keep⟳ himself."”

“Mrs. Chow down the street, for instance, why did she look⟳ so sniffingly upon him when she heard the children, in the harmless uproar of their play⟳, cry⟳ him aloud as Daddy?”

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