| The wards were cleared of overbearing aunts, unruly children, enthusiastic colleagues and sniffy mothers-in-law. |
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| The two countries have obviously been shaken by the sniffy reaction of much of Europe to the EU Constitution. |
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| His sniffy attitude to Motown may be dead wrong but his dissection of the creative and entrepreneurial side of the music industry is unrivalled. |
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| There is a middle-class reserve to Edinburgh that gets rather sniffy at the thought of making a public display of oneself. |
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| Wine critics and oenophiles can get very sniffy about these wines, and often do their best to avoid them. |
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| It was a bit unfair, I suggested, to be sniffy about people wanting to become pop stars when the alternative was, say, working in a factory. |
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| Out go the twitching nostrils, flailing arms and sniffy declamations about a cheeky scintilla of vanilla and oodles of gunsmoke. |
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| But we are shopping in the bargain basement here, and there is no time to get sniffy. |
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| And now, combing for music to keep me going, this sniffy critic includes songs she would never otherwise listen to. |
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| Why would a firm aiming its products at women or the disabled be sniffy about employing them? |
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| Yet the response of the media press has been sniffy, accusing the campaign as being, like the menu, stuck in the past and rather creepy. |
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| But according to sniffy British sources, the arrests were the result of a long-standing intelligence operation that began long before the American alerts. |
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| I know we terribly sophisticated Europeans tend to be very sniffy about America's obsession with 40-lane highways but you can get around the place. |
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| Given Europe's appalling unemployment record, especially its failure to provide jobs for young folk, the Continent's elite have no right to be sniffy. |
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| Let's also not get too sniffy about doping as others test positive, or are thrown out like one European athlete overnight for a positive test at a July meeting. |
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| As babies grow bigger and fiercer, they contribute more mess and filth than llamas herded into your living room, and yet they're so sniffy about dirt. |
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| Some charity chiefs are actually quite sniffy about our public efforts. |
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| Mr Conlon has got distinctly sniffy about this remark and clearly thinks I am some sort of bogey man. |
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| All those critics who ignored you for much of your career, and who were decidely sniffy about your sci-fi stuff, will be falling over themselves to say what a great writer you are once you are dead. |
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| It drew sniffy reviews from curmudgeonly critics but made pots of money. |
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| In fact, there is an air of sniffy dowdiness to the little Kia. |
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