sniffingly

English

Etymology

From sniffing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

sniffingly (comparative more sniffingly, superlative most sniffingly)

1. With a sniffing sound or action.
   • 1997, Philip Ashton Rollins, The Cowboy, page 191:

     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.

2. With haughty disapproval.
   • 2004, Edward Robb Ellis, The Epic Of New York City: A Narrative History, page 232:

     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."

   • 2007, Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins, page 27:

     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?