sniffingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
With haughty disapproval.
Example Sentences
- "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?"
Etymology
From sniffing + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more sniffingly (comparative)
most sniffingly (superlative)