waspy
Example Sentences
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I go with one of the young English upstarts and choose a slightly exaggerated, magnificently tailored suit that emphasizes my new, waspy figure.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Soon the airplanes came, adding their waspy buzz to the music.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
Well, I feel about it a good deal like that big, burly, good-natured canal laborer who had a little waspy bit of a wife, in the habit of beating him.
From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Henry Llewellyn Williams
"No wonder she's grown waspy, living a life like that," says Vee.
From Wilt Thou Torchy by Sewell Ford
"Can it be possible that you, a man worth millions of piasters, an exalted ruler, a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, have deliberately chosen this waspy, weedy——" "Let up!" said Mr. Pike sharply.
From The Slim Princess by George Ade
