Word of the day: Snub

Snub: trato frio ou desdenhoso, parada repentina, censura, crítica, repreensão, desprezar, tratar friamente, receber mal, parar,  nariz pequeno e arrebitado, arrebitado

Synonyms: cold-shoulder, cut, high-hat, slight, stiff, stiff-arm

“She snubbed me in the hallway.”

“He snubbed their job offer.”

“They deliberately snubbed the meeting.”     (www.merriam-webster.com)

Obs.: snob:  esnobe.

Word of the day: Chesty

Chesty:  pretensioso, convencido, presunçoso / mulher de busto avantajado

Synonyms: assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, arrogant, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-hat, huffish, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, peremptory, pompous

“Given the university's chesty reputation for academic rigor, all that losing might well have been welcomed as a scholarly credential.”