Advertisement
Advertisement
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
Buoyed by the belief inspired by narrower scorelines against Ireland and Scotland, Wales fans had dared to dream before kick-off, snarling and singing through England's warm-up.
Seven hours and a cross-country trip later, I was sprawled on the bed in my Miami hotel room, exhausted from the dawn journey, embracing a nap such that I ignored my suddenly snarling smartphone.
She is snarling like a tiger and kicking up her high heels as she poses for photographs in Salon’s New York studio.
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.
Advertisement
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse