sniffingly

副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. With a sniffing sound or action.
    — 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.
    — 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."

词形变化

more sniffingly comparative most sniffingly superlative

词源

From sniffing + -ly.
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