snuffy

Cecelia Calca was always snuffy about the cinema screen in the pavilion.

But she would say, Only think what a bore it would be, always to have a snuffy old gentleman sitting on the opposite side of the fire!

I found him at home; a horrid, snuffy old man with shabby clothes; a dingy grimy office as untidy as himself.

He introduced her to a snuffy Portuguese priest with a list of semi- destitute widows as long as his cassock.

Fluffy and snuffy strangers stare into the kitchen-range as curiously as into the attic clothes-press.

The stud is one nobody else willingly climbs aboard, being a sullen, snuffy sort, and I've won wagers on him when betting men thought he might be the winner of the regular morning hostilities.

It is scarcely necessary to warn the amateur against the society of book-ghouls, who are generally snuffy and foul in appearance, and by no means so insinuating as that fair lady-ghoul, Amina, of the Arabian Nights.

This preparation was easily made, as it required nothing more than the snuffy black bonnet, the snuffy black shawl, the pattens and the indispensable umbrella, without which neither a lying-in nor a laying-out could by any possibility be attempted.

So Mr. Krook addresses a crazy little woman who is his female lodger, who appears and vanishes in a breath, who soon returns accompanied by a testy medical man brought from his dinner, with a broad, snuffy upper lip and a broad Scotch tongue.