high-nosed

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Adjective[edit]

high-nosed (comparative more high-nosed, superlative most high-nosed)

  1. (dated) snobbish; supercilious
    • 1868, Annie Thomas, Playing for High Stakes, page 79:
      He pictured her to himself as a high-nosed, haughty-mannered, handsome, heartless woman, who would try to make him uncomfortable by being cold and distant to him.
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