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snot-nosed

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snot-nosed

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1. Arrogant and snobbish. I was already bored, but now that we have a snot-nosed tour guide, I'm leaving. Did you hear how judgmental he was about our choice of wine? What a snot-nosed jerk.
2. Young and inexperienced. I've been in this job 20 years, and now some snot-nosed kid right out of college is going to tell me what to do? No way!
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"So what," said some snot-nosed crony of Tony's when asked to explain the audacity of New Labour's leech.
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I think it is strange that a snot-nosed, 18-year-old has the same vote as a father of seven.
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In 1998, when some graduating Notre Dame students complained that South Bend Mayor Joseph Kernan (now Indiana lieutenant-governor) wasn't prestigious enough, the university's South Bend neighbors blasted, in letters to the editor, the "snot-nosed intellectuals" who didn't think a dedicated public servant and war hero sufficiently worthy.
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As in Tony Manero, Larrain indulges a taste for the fetid--the greasy rat tail on Nancy's balding boss, the gray chunk of gristle that Mario spits out in the lunchroom--and for emotional extremes: Mario passionately hugging Nancy's mop-haired kid brother in what seems more than gratitude, or the two lovers succumbing to a snot-nosed crying jag at their first meal together.
It could have been worse, but McGrory has since been inundated with angry emails and comments, many of which call him a mean-spirited elitist snot-nosed snob, and I'd feel sorry for the guy if I wasn't chuckling over my lunch in the pothole-plagued Canal District.
It keeps us connected to that snot-nosed little grommet we used to be.
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