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What does the word snooty mean?

snooty means showing disapproval of or contempt towards others,especially those considered to be socially inferior


What is another word for pretentious?

Arrogant, bombastic, egotistic, snooty, conceited


How would you act the part of someone who is described as aloof?

That depends on why they are aloof. Aloof means cool and distant. Often this is because the person who is aloof is dismissive or disdainful of the person or situation they have in front of them so you should act snooty and above it all. Sometimes people are aloof because they are uninterested in the person or situation they have in front of them so you should act bored. Sometimes people are aloof because they are have something to hide so you should act mysterious. Of the three, the first is the most likely.


What is a synonym for arrogant?

Synonyms for the adjective arrogant are aloof, assuming, audacious, autocratic, bossy, bragging, cavalier, cheeky, cocky, cold, conceited, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, domineering, egotistic, haughty, high and mighty, high-handed, imperious, insolent, know-it-all, lordly, on an ego trip, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, puffed up, scornful, self-important, smarty, smug, sniffy, snippy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, supercilious, superior, swaggering, uppity, vain, wise guy.


What is the effect of euphemistic language?

Euphemistic language misleads our understanding trying to spare our feelings about reality. A euphemism may displace the normal word for something, whereupon it become subject to euphemism. For example, in some communities the word mortician, meaning a professional handler of dead people, may be unsuitable for polite conversation, and so the word undertaker - that is, one who undertakes ( to provide the services of a mortician)- takes its place. But the word undertaker may come to mean one who takes the dead under, again too earthy an expression for the dinner-table - and so funeral home director replaces it, or even - since modern English speakers as a rule, even the snooty ones, will not know what mort means anyway, mortician again.