[ adj ] having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy <adj.all> some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplineshaughty aristocrats his lordly manners were offensive walked with a prideful swagger very sniffy about breaches of etiquette his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air a more swaggering mood than usual
Nonsensical, faulty in construction and ungrammatical is the sniffy verdict of Chambers Biographical Dictionary on the writing of Elinor Glyn.
'He made an international best seller out of a book that the reviewers could have been expected to be sniffy about.' At Pan Macmillan his authors had included Ken Follett and Wilbur Smith. Hely Hutchinson also worked for Macmillan.