What's the difference between haughtily and sniffily?
Haughtily
Definition:
(adv.) In a haughty manner; arrogantly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron calls him unacceptable and illegitimate, haughtily scorning Juncker's drive to become the next head of the EU executive in Brussels.
(2) There was no prospect of a revival down the route of haughtily dismissing their beliefs as naive or plain wrong.
(3) When Ian Hislop became editor of Private Eye in 1986, Waugh left haughtily and abusively to take up the editorship of the Literary Review, a monthly owned, and heavily subsidised, by Naim Attallah.
(4) The LA-based performer, who performs under her first name, has every right to act a little haughtily.
(5) Sir Peter Vardy, meanwhile, haughtily offered the opinion that "far from celebrating, [the Parents' Action Group] should be reflecting on the opportunity they have denied their children for an education of the very highest standard in state-of-the-art facilities".
(6) How haughtily, how decisively we marginalised our parents, and other relatives who hadn't expired early from respiratory diseases or industrial accidents.
(7) Separatism can no longer be haughtily dismissed as a question for the fringes: it will sit at the heart of UK politics.
(8) "No regrets," she asserts haughtily, knocking back a glass of rakija , the local tipple.
(9) Perhaps there is resentment because the clemency and respect that are being mawkishly displayed now by some and haughtily demanded of the rest of us at the impending, solemn ceremonial funeral, are values that her government and policies sought to annihilate.
(10) "Will you just look at him, staring off into the distance with those big sad eyes, occasionally tottering and overbalancing, wandering haughtily across some of the finest greenswards that this great land has to offer.
(11) Wiener's adversaries here become now-familiar Thatcherite punchbags – the BBC, for instance, an institution of paternalist arrogance which haughtily refused to give the public the money-generating entertainment it really wanted; or the universities, devoted to the lefty talking shop of the "social sciences" rather than robustly useful applied science.
(12) While the losers might state haughtily that they have higher priorities, this loss stung them.
Sniffily
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Researcher Clezio Marcos de Nardin was quoted by the local media as sniffily saying that there was no reason to put more faith in a Mayan calendar than any other calendar.
(2) Van Gaal is also understood to be interested in picking up Danny Ings from Burnley for £5m, at which point Brendan Rodgers may sniffily point out that Liverpool didn’t want him anyway.
(3) There are places where England fall unintentionally apart,” said Japan’s coach, somewhat sniffily, shortly before kick off.
(4) Usually I sniffily avoid artificial sweeteners, but a cold glass of slimline tonic with a slice of lime and plenty of ice goes down a treat when everyone else is glugging wine.
(5) Regarding another Apprentice candidate, Margaret Mountford sniffily noted in last week's post-interview grass-up session that "she wants your black book of contacts".