sniffishness

noun

sniffishness

noun

Etymology From sniffish + -ness.

1

The quality of being sniffish.

  • But he was free from any trace of the conventional masculine sniffishness toward the jilted woman; instead, he visualized, more vividly than ever, the bitter humiliation of Miriam's ordeal.1922, Harold Hunter Armstrong, For Richer, for Poorer, page 129:

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