snarly

Example Sentences

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Her understated androgyny was paired with a shout-singing vocal style that had a snarly, monotone curl laced with abandon and disregard for convention.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

And Lacey is a snarly mess — because of her failed infertility treatments, because she's lost her sister.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2023

She was a bit snarly at first, he added.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2022

He could be so snarly, though, that Senator William B. Saxbe, Republican of Ohio, memorably derided him as Nixon’s “hatchet man” and said he was so disagreeable, “he couldn’t sell beer on a troop ship.”

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2021

I recognized him, recognized his flattop of blonded hair with the ornamental frontal curl, the snarly lips, the athletic lumber.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam