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[huhf-ee] / ˈhʌf i /


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Compare them to the grizzled, huffy statesmen who previously played those roles, especially in the 2002 ITV adaptation.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026

They could also vote on huffy resolutions declaring their distaste for Boasberg et al.

From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2025

However, five weeks later she developed "huffy" breathing and in the days following was diagnosed with GBS after deteriorating in hospital.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024

During the course of the TV show “Frasier,” its main character was described as pompous, loquacious, overanalytical, pushy, pretentious, bossy, huffy, vain … and those are just the words used by his loved ones.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

And then she pulled the door closed in a huffy and important way, and I was alone with Reverend Obertask, the walrus who could maybe perform magic.

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo

So things ran along, and I got huffier and huffier.

From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Cornelia A. P. Comer

She wur white as the bleached skull o’ a huffier; an sesh har!

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

Gerald Feinberg, the Columbia University physi-No, the huffiest of all it-couldn't-be-done claims cist, once went so far as to declare that "everything centered on the notion that human beings could possible will eventually be accomplished."

From SAT Tests




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