British academics have become less sniffy about commerce now that more of their colleagues are buying fancy cars.
Apparently, quite a few of his best students drop computer science at A-level because top universities are still sniffy about it.
Some Russian missile specialists helping Iran are sniffy about its technological prowess.
Britain had been pretty sniffy about early moves towards European integration.
RAC's royal connections (Prince Michael of Kent is its president), other clubs in St James's are rather sniffy about it regarding it as a bit, well, common.
The European Central Bank, which is not a lender of last resort even to banks in the euro zone, has been sniffy about lending to countries outside it.
New Labour has not said how it is going to make up the likely loss of privatisation receipts if it carries on being sniffy about privatisation in office.
It received a predictably sniffy response: "not a priority".
With Europe's unemployment now falling, and its people increasingly sniffy about the sorts of jobs they are prepared to do, or too ill-equipped to do the high-tech ones being created, the continent's workforce is in need of renewal as never before.
Although nutritionists are often a little sniffy about dietary supplements, pointing out instead how important it is to eat the right food in the first place, there are corners of society in which people lack either the knowledge or the means to do so, or simply choose to eat poorly.
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