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snippy

[snip-ee] / ˈsnɪp i /


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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

And between Kaylee’s snippy comments and Fiona’s insisting I go to Angelo’s, I get agitated and start hopping around.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

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

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 Joseph Crosby Lincoln




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