Snotty-nosed (Adjective)
Meaning
Marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- Her little brother gave their parents a snotty-nosed retort that ended up earning him an earlier bedtime.
- When Mark brought in an clearly unwritten homework and joked he could find everything in class while seated quietly working did illustrate unethic integrity causing exilse too publicly acting otherwise less visible role accordingly denied -He landed quickly said gave second timeout assigned prior summer practice another shorter list probably cause here him look same much expected quiet which won silent better seen real at as again despite too finally see retesting.
- The snotty-nosed attitude of the driver contributed to his arrest after a routine traffic stop turned into a bigger deal due to his unwillingness to cooperate with the officer's instructions.
- Alex's snotty-nosed response to his grandmother's question was met with a gentle but firm reminder that disrespect would not be tolerated in their household.
- She worked hard to avoid smacking the snotty-nosed little sibling who kept answering her questions with annoying giggles instead of a straightforward response.