How To Use Snappish In A Sentence
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‘Not that it's any of your business,’ I began snappishly, ‘but she wants me to baby-sit for her on Sunday.’
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That is beautiful, Tony," Momma said, no longer sounding at all snappish.
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A diva-like flightiness is central to her character, a loving but scatty single mum who had her first child in her mid-teens, works as a cleaner, and swings unpredictably between snappish burnout and little-girl fragility.
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`Don't talk to me now,' she said snappishly
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He was a bit snappish in his old age, but I think that he was always receptive to new ideas and changes in perception, and that's what makes the difference between a great correspondent or reporter and one who merely ossifies with age.
Muddy Boots and Red Socks
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I said, snappishly, pushing my glasses higher on my face, ‘Did you hear me?’
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Home for Rumpole was a mansion flat off Gloucester Road, where he lived in a state of miserable, snappish fidelity to Hilda, "She Who Must be Obeyed".
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snappishly, then, `Oh, okay, if I have to," and pressed the button and began to speak.
FOOLS GOLD
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Rational Review
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‘I think that would be obvious, Nathan,’ I said snappishly.
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Why do they have to be sullen and snappish, answering back at the drop of a hat, locking themselves in the bathroom and spending hours texting their mates?
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I think the little man drinking tea in China heard you,’ Nicole said snappishly.
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Almost for the first time in her life Dena found her irritable, snappish.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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While the ladies in the tea-room of the Fox Hotel were engaged in the light snappish velitation, or skirmish, which we have described, the gentlemen who remained in the parlour were more than once like to have quarrelled more seriously.
Saint Ronan's Well
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What the deuce moved him to be so snappish and depravedly bent against the good fathers of the true religion?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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First it suddenly hit her that she was stiff, even snappish, towards everyone but her closest friends, Mick and Reardon.
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‘Of course I know who he is,’ I responded snappishly also.
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She'd been rude and snappish, but Seth had a couple of times glimpsed a softer side, he'd thought.
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I was snappish and rude to either of my parents if they spoke to me and I dragged my feet, glaring down at the linoleum floor beneath my scorched sneakers, which had somehow managed to be salvaged.
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‘Shorten my name,’ I clarified in a curt, snappish tone.
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I'd noticed that in a few short hours that his curt and snappish side was back.
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When that happened, which was surprisingly often, she was snappish and disagreeable.
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But I will not tolerate a bunch of snipy nastiness — I have not had nearly enough sleep for it, and my exhaustion is like to make me snappish any moment now.
Firedoglake » Time to Take Off the Glasses
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Barker and Adair are thrilled by her snappish, difficult behaviour and her extensive shoe collection.
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I'd noticed that in a few short hours that his curt and snappish side was back.
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`That is beautiful, Tony," Momma said, no longer sounding at all snappish.
WEB OF DREAMS
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His brown hair was tightly curled, his dark eyes snappishly alive in a face that was crudely hewn yet oddly attractive.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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a snappish tone of voice
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The interplay between the performers is lively and very sharp, from the easy, near-constant physical contact between the twins to the verbal deliveries that switch on a dime from singsongy to snappish.
Theater review: 'Tether' by Julie Taiwo Oni
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The excess energy from quitting smoking has apparently slipped away and I'm in that dangerous stage in the battle where I'm crabby and snappish.
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Natalie looked like she was going to say something snappish, but then looked down.
GING GANG GOOLIE IT'S AN ALIEN
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She snappishly asked him why the associate couldn't come to their house.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN