snappish

Example Sentences

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Full of snappy and snappish dialogue, the book imagines a carnival-esque week’s idyll in the “shantytown of millionaires” that was 1950s Malibu.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2024

Sometimes he was snappish, and sometimes just whiny, but always bristling.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2024

Lulu has been traumatized by her experiences on the front lines and is skittish and snappish.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2022

Brown, in her snappish mode, is wonderfully entertaining, and Ireland brings a sparkly, neurotic wit to the weakest material.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2021

All week long Gaines had been nervous, almost snappish, but now he was surprisingly relaxed, glad to be insulated from it all as the car spun its way toward the Midland loop.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger