Word: sniffish
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...open checkbook that he can bribe the poor and buy the Army, which desolates Barbara. He then invites everyone to his munitions plant, where the workers dwell in a model city. From generation to generation the Undershaft inheritance can only go to a foundling, and Cusins qualifies. Moralistically sniffish, Cusins resists Undershaft's blandishments until the cagey old dialectician storms, "Dare you make war on war?" Cusins succumbs, vowing to arm the common man against "the lawyers, the doctors, the literary men, the politicians, who, once in authority, are more disastrous and tyrannical than all the fools, rascals...
There was a further grave question that took the situation deep: What of General Charles de Gaulle, and his legions of Frenchmen who had worked and fought for freedom since June 1940? The U.S. State Department had been consistently sniffish and standoffish toward them; were they still to be ignored...
...Richelieu's owner, a Colonel Bemus, used to trot around to Sprague Warner's to sample before buying. Anything the sniffish colonel approved was dubbed "Richelieu" as a mark of distinction...
...Carefully sniffish toward anything "practical," Yale let its single college course in public-speaking lapse last year, met protests by pleading economy. Last week the Yale News, whose lively undergraduate chairman is Jonathan Brewster Bingham, youngest of the seven sons of Connecticut's onetime Senator Hiram Bingham, took rich Yale at its word. Announcing that it would sponsor the non-credit course, the News persuaded a professor to lecture on his own time, hired a fraternity house for a classroom, undertook to pay all expenses, including a taxi to & from class for the professor and one assistant...
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