Sniffingly

Quick meaning: Sniffingly is an adverb meaning With a sniffing sound or action.

Meaning

With a sniffing sound or action.

More Meanings

1. With haughty disapproval.

Example Sentences

Philip Hone sniffingly noted in his diary that "they increase our taxes, eat our bread and encumber our streets, and not one in twenty is competent to keep himself."

Mrs. Chow down the street, for instance, why did she look so sniffingly upon him when she heard the children, in the harmless uproar of their play, cry him aloud as Daddy?

All during the night the riding ponies had grazed in close proximity to the house, had stamped about it, and occasionally had put their noses to its cracks, sniffingly to satisfy either curiosity or a desire for human companionship.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include snufflingly, snortingly, snuffingly, snifflingly, sniggeringly, suckingly.

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