Adjective, : He was very sniffy about breaches of etiquette.    From Dictionary.com. 

Likewise, my exquisite abode in sniffy San Miguel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best Retirement Place for Berkeleyans] Reference

Well — kind of sniffy on personal lines, like he made work about the place and was late for meals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tied Up in Tinsel]

I have been accused of being "sniffy" about Kevin Kelly's meditation on eight new scarcities created by free; well, be that as it may.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Thinking] Reference

Could have also been 'sniffy' as in sniffing for scent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Althouse] Reference

That sniffy, sneezy, sinus pressure kind of death.    From Wordnik.com.  [misspinkkate Diary Entry] Reference

I keep trying to stop myself being sniffy about this.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Africa, where there are dreadlocks, there are white tourists being preyed upon] Reference

The Dog was all sniffy-nosed and waggy-tailed about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help needed: Duncan and The Dog « knitnut.net] Reference

Plenty of printers were very sniffy about the new technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Print On Demand becomes respectable] Reference

sniffy, sniffy… no, dis not weerd, y u lookin at mee dat wey?.    From Wordnik.com.  [i see London, I see France - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

A sniffy Humphrys was not going to take that lying down though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

Another sniffy comment about this schmuck's video-clerking job.    From Wordnik.com.  ["I don't like to call the police or call his boss. . . . I'm a libertarian. I'm not into that."] Reference

He also spotted the thing, but as a programmer, he's a bit sniffy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virtual Speak & Spell: It "doesn't do math"] Reference

I agree that my origins may make me a little sniffy about Vizcaya.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's good in Miami?] Reference

Bearded sniffy old men sitting and demanding that we bear children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

And a sniffy young Wiscount in barnacles landed wot 'e thought a' it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference

I suspect there would be many people who would be sniffy about Dickens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

Den boff kittins wawkd ryte up tu hur adn had a free-way sniffy-noazes!.    From Wordnik.com.  [How do you want - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Suspect it will get a decent audience but the critics will be a bit sniffy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

"Are you afraid of sniffy colds?" asked Nancy, "they say they are catching!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shield of Silence] Reference

So there is no reason to get sniffy the next time you see paddlefish caviar on a menu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Like a Sturgeon] Reference

It received a rather sniffy dismissal when it was published in England some months ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pearl Fisher] Reference

People get sniffy about thesauruses, saying that they encourage irresponsible word choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Writing lessons — a writer’s toolbox] Reference

Grown-ups are at least smiling at the sniffy umbrage of a poseur scrambling to sound impressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Wouldn't Grow Up: When Sirius XM radio DJ Kenny Curtis talks, kids listen] Reference

This is true, though if CymruMark is who I think he is he shouldn't be too sniffy about Liberator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leighton Andrews: The mystery solved] Reference

A lot of journalism became a gossipy exercise in snark and sniffy outrage during the Clinton years.    From Wordnik.com.  [America Can't Handle the Truth; But it's Coming Anyway] Reference

Perhaps that's why some colleagues who have studied the text more closely have been sniffy about his prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair's A Journey memoir released – live blog] Reference

Still in recovery, albeit a bit sniffy after the excitement of exclusively "outing" a non-existent election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eating Trifles: Chinese Whispers Going Underground] Reference

What I like about this, sniffy-sniff, you're going to get sour cherry here, you're going to get a little bark.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2009] Reference

And -- to his shame Raymond heard it gleefully -- she had a "sniffy little cold" that made going out impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shield of Silence] Reference

She plays a sniffy intellectual, discovered by a fashion magazine during a photoshoot in a Greenwich Village bookshop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The big picture: Paris, 1956 – Audrey Hepburn on the set of Funny Face] Reference

(His sniffy response when The Corrections was selected for Oprah's Book Club led to Oprah Winfrey rescinding her invitation.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Franzen picks up the torch for US literary tradition] Reference

Her job is first to energise the conservative base, which had been sniffy about mccain but is wildly enthusiatic about Palin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Yet the librarians who are getting sniffy, and talking about "how sad" and inappropriate this author has been are confusing to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WritingYA Weblog: The Scrotum Screed, or Much Ado About A Word] Reference

Now we wait to see if Iain will refute this, give it a sniffy 'so what?' or simply wait for someone to yell "Axe murderder!" for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The BBC Must Take Full Responsibility] Reference