“Mrs. Chow down the street, for instance, why did she look so sniffingly upon him when she heard the children, in the harmless uproar of their play, cry him aloud as Daddy?”

“She walked away from the table sniffily, clearly offended by the rude remark.”

“Some supermarket bosses said sniffily that the quality of organic food could not be guaranteed.”

“But is her secret, as some rivals are sniffily suggesting, simply to have let tabloid newspaper hacks loose in the more respectful world of magazines?”