[ UK /wˈɒspɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. very irritable
    witty and waspish about his colleagues
    bristly exchanges between the White House and the press
    he became prickly and spiteful
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How To Use waspish In A Sentence

  • If there were more money in it, he would clearly have made an astute, if waspish critic.
  • He is particularly good at the waspish one-line character summary.
  • If I were a wasp and I’ve been called waspish on occasion, I’d rather be poisoned than stuck to glue where I’ll try to escape and rip off my legs or slowly die an agonizing, slow, slow death full of pain and suffering. September, transmogrification and killer karma « knitnut.net
  • Nehemiah, who goes with Christ-like love to a ruined Jerusalem, may have lived on in my mind, but my spirit was overtaken by a waspish bitterness that contradicted in my life what I had tried to argue in my book.
  • Charles Wood's script, which uses a stylised form of period dialogue, offers a waspish satire of the Victorian military Establishment.
  • While no doubt a few of the neighbors were dismayed by this violation of Waspish color preferences, the effect was both unexpected and charming.
  • Private thoughts made public reveal a waspish view of the world which readers may find surprising.
  • Raúl Esparza, cast as a fey mathematician who tries to explain chaos theory to Hannah, makes the mistake of reducing his big speech to unintelligible gabble, while Mr. Crudup is too genial to be convincing as a waspishly malicious academic. When Good Enough Just Isn't Enough
  • Both he and Woods, who played in the same 1995 Walker Cup side, are blazing a trail for ethnic minorities on the US Tour, which is still dominated by golfers of a Waspish background.
  • Her waspish tongue has already landed her in trouble.
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