snarly

A chuckle dripped out of Sigurd’s snarly mouth.

She was a bit snarly at first, he added.

It was a relief to see a friendly face after so many snarly ones.

“Drivers are generally snarly because they are tired, they’re hungry, and their schedules suck, and they tend to take it out on other people.”

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.”