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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
The cat ceased snarling and presently began a loud purring which seemed to increase in timbre as he stroked her.
In September, several lanes of the bridge were closed, snarling traffic in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
The snarling dog they kept in a pen for decades has just escaped and bitten their hand off.
McCain was hardly the snarling, grumpy figure he appeared to be at the end of the 2008 campaign.
He considers it the usual crazy talk until one night when his sternum is nearly crushed by a snarling, otherworldly apparition.
The Great Dane, crouching close and snarling, watched him as a cat watches a mouse.
In his eyes was the look of the snarling wild animal—the same look that had flashed there when he sprang at Lowell in his camp.
The snarling, biting, and barking of false hydrophobia are hysterical; these symptoms do not occur in real hydrophobia.
What pleasure or benefit could arise from this snarling contradiction, would have defied a wiser brain than Ida's to determine.
He has availed himself of a term that gathers up all the snarling qualities of the worst of the dog species.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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