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snappy

adjective as in nasty, irritable

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Guy said his father would generally get rid of animals that were "snappy or nasty" and that the cows in the field had "always acted in a docile manner".

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He outmuscled Rios, with the challenger covering up as left and right hooks landed on the temple and snappy uppercuts snuck through the high guard.

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We knew the people involved were interesting and we knew the spy genre wants to be snappy, where they say all the right things at the right time.

Like humans, wild chimpanzees engage in snappy, turn-taking conversations, where they wait just a fraction of a second for their turn to 'speak'.

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Full of snappy and snappish dialogue, the book imagines a carnival-esque week’s idyll in the “shantytown of millionaires” that was 1950s Malibu.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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