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snarling
adjective as in crusty
adjective as in irritable
Weak matches
- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- fiery
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- plaintive
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- sensitive
- snappy
- tense
- touchy
adjective as in sarcastic
Strongest matches
adjective as in satiric
Weak matches
- acerb
- acid
- acrimonious
- arrogant
- austere
- backhanded
- bitter
- brusque
- captious
- carping
- chaffing
- contemptuous
- contumelious
- cussed
- cutting
- cynical
- derisive
- disillusioned
- disparaging
- disrespectful
- evil
- hostile
- irascible
- ironical
- jeering
- mean
- needling
- offensive
- ornery
- salty
- saucy
- scoffing
- scorching
- scornful
- scurrilous
- severe
- sharp
- smart-alecky
- sneering
- taunting
- twitting
- weisenheiming
adjective as in scoffing
Strong matches
Example Sentences
From the snarling title track opener to the tricky-timed, Spanish-language “Yo Me Estreso” and B-52’s worthy vamp “Resolution/Revolution,” their songs take big new swings and land pretty much all of them.
Then again, Dylan’s snarling take on the delightfully nasty “Ballad of a Thin Man” — which he performed, like most of Wednesday’s set, in a wide-legged stance behind a grand piano, his shirt open nearly to his belly button — suggested he can still find fresh irritation in the misunderstandings of the mid-’60s.
It takes on the mannerisms of a snarling bulldog and will quickly rush you with all the intensity of one.
The Dali has remained at the collapse site since it lost power and crashed into one of the bridge’s supporting columns on March 26, killing six construction workers and snarling traffic into Baltimore Harbor.
As occurred in the runup to 2000, pre-Jubilee public works projects have overwhelmed Rome, with flood-lit construction sites operating around the clock, entire swaths of central boulevards rerouted and traffic snarling the city’s already clogged streets.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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