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huffiness

NOUN
  1. a passing state of anger and resentment

How To Use huffiness In A Sentence

  • This is turning out to be a great summer for lovers of cliches: France's football team is behaving with the kind of deliciously Gallic huffiness last seen from Pepe le Pew after being rejected by a suitor. Just who is interested in politicians' sex lives?
  • There was little evidence of the usual huffiness and stand-offishness we are normally greeted with.
  • Rejoiced was I that my sisters should have this glimpse of her, and off we drove to her; but I must own that we were disappointed in this visit, for there was a sort of _chuffiness_, and a sawdust kind of unconnected cutshortness in her manner, which we could not like. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1
  • The host's pretentious huffiness assures you that the blindfolded lady holding the scales is not only implacable and inescapable but - by gad, sir!
  • A kind of mulish huffiness in his expression made him look ridiculous and unlikeable. The Nursing Home Murder
  • China's recent freak-out over a long-planned U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, its obstreperousness at the United Nations Copenhagen climate summit and its chuffiness on sanctions against Iran have underscored the non-democracy's new swagger as the healthiest post-crash economy. Edmonton Sun
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