What's the difference between snotty and uppish?

Snotty


Definition:

  • (a.) Foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But later, by the time he was selling out theatres for his live shows, that gawky guile and snotty cheek had morphed into relentless anxiety and slapstick self-consciousness.
  • (2) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (3) Hackney Council has actually done a good job of improving the environment and by and large the borough is a fairly good place to live and not nearly as overrun with snotty upper-middle class twits as other gentrified boroughs.
  • (4) but there was a snotty punk rock edge to Gregg Popovich's reply.
  • (5) Reviews call her “deft” and “deliciously snotty”, her presence in a film a “recommendation”.
  • (6) The very idea of us renouncing a beverage that King Charles II tried to ban and The Women's Petition Against Coffee of 1674 claimed had "so Eunucht our Husbands and Crippled our more kind gallants they come from it with nothing moist but their snotty noses, nothing stiffe but their Joints ..." is unthinkable.
  • (7) One is the cheeringly snotty cheek of the journalist.
  • (8) She recently scrapped an entire snotty punk record, and an early listen to this reveals a fair few tunes-by-numbers that belie the heavyweight producers (StarGate).
  • (9) His mother sees him out of the house while I slump on the sofa and weep, gasping, snotty, desperate, final: "I have lost my son."
  • (10) Quite the opposite I have no time for the all-too-smug, seen-it-all-before snottiness towards Russell Brand that is so prevalent among the political commentariat.
  • (11) I can still remember reading the chart every fortnight, bewildered and thrilled at the names it contained: Poor Old Soul by Orange Juice, Let’s Build a Car by Swell Maps, There Goes Concorde Again by And The Native Hipsters, even I’m in Love with Margaret Thatcher by The Notsensibles (released, unbelievably, by a record label called Snotty Snail).
  • (12) Because no doubt it’s because my ladybrain is soft and can only cope with things like leather trousers, but I don’t understand the snottiness around money and clothes.

Uppish


Definition:

  • (a.) Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Updated at 12.32pm BST 12.29pm BST 20th over: Sri Lanka 52-1 (Karunaratne 24, Sangakkara 6) Sangakkara drives Jordan uppishly through the covers for his first boundary.
  • (2) Eoin Morgan flattered to deceive yet again, launching Priyanjan for the only six of the innings over wide long on only to flick Mathews uppishly and thoughtlessly to long leg.
  • (3) But what he calls "uppish department stores" are at risk as those economies start to bite and consumers postpone purchases.
  • (4) I went to Mummy, we both know Dave is equality's biggest fan, if Daniel Day-Lewis had not already ended slavery it totally would have been him, but Hilto is right, there are limits, as in someone like Picklesy just senses when he needs to back off and do his dog fighting, whatevs, total salt of the earth, and even the most uppish protection officers do not expect you to, like, know their names although I think the one who buys my tights might be called Alan?

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