snippy
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"He comes over as snippy and as someone who's got something to hide, which is never a good look."
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
Perhaps your friend was experiencing some anxiety about the day, which resulted in her being snippy with you.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 28, 2025
Instead, the Rangers head coach was was short, snippy and sombre.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
There’s nothing more appealing than watching a snippy Ford say some of the most outrageous lines on TV.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2024
Yeah, I’ve seen them get snippy with each other.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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And customers might be snippier than usual these days, too.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
Some of the snippier reviews deemed it an imitation of Stephen King’s The Stand; King himself called The Passage “enthralling”, with “the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2016
The conversation grew snippier as one effort after another failed, and the clock ticked down.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2014
Leng becomes even snippier when she realizes that Terry and Jiale are bonding.
From Washington Post
I checked my e-mail, reading the backlog of letters from my mother, getting snippier as they progressed to the present.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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Elvira, Mrs. Brackett, Desire Peasly and the rest gave him the snippiest of bows when they met and whispered and giggled behind his back.
From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby