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sniff at

verb

  1. intr, preposition to express contempt or dislike for
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The mere depiction of men lusting after other men, let alone as something to be celebrated, wasn’t anything to sniff at.

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So in the interest of self-improvement, I open my pack of what look like markers and sniff at them one by one.

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It was about 8:30 p.m. when the spotted beast appeared and stopped to sniff at mountain lion scat before opening its jaw.

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One woman said she was given something to sniff at his flat which had an "immediate impact" on her, while the other was overly affected by a glass of wine and a few puffs of what she believed was cannabis.

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The child of today, spoiled for choice in targeted programming, might sniff at the old shows, but a CGI “Pufnstuf,” which happily no one has proposed, would be all but pointless, and potentially depressing.

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