huffy
Example Sentences
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However, five weeks later she developed "huffy" breathing and in the days following was diagnosed with GBS after deteriorating in hospital.
From BBC
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
She has her hand propped on her hip and is very huffy.
From Literature
Whenever it was on, I became huffy, knitting my brows and aggressively scrolling through my camera roll or Twitter in silent protest.
From Salon
An Indian journalist even tweeted that Singaporeans are "irrationally proud" of it, drawing a predictably huffy response.
From BBC
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