How To Use Waspish In A Sentence
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If there were more money in it, he would clearly have made an astute, if waspish critic.
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He is particularly good at the waspish one-line character summary.
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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
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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.
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Charles Wood's script, which uses a stylised form of period dialogue, offers a waspish satire of the Victorian military Establishment.
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While no doubt a few of the neighbors were dismayed by this violation of Waspish color preferences, the effect was both unexpected and charming.
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Private thoughts made public reveal a waspish view of the world which readers may find surprising.
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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
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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.
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Her waspish tongue has already landed her in trouble.
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She knew it was waspish, and ill-spirited and petty, and mean.
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But can gyrating a day-glo hoop around the middle really give you a waspish waist?
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When most male observational comics are trying to come across as the kind of regular blokes you might find propping up the bar at your local, Godliman's more the waspish girl in the corner with a glass of white wine who's smarter than the lot of them put together.
This week's new comedy
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So we have Marilyn Marks resigning from The Red Ant blog, the waspish Elizabeth Milias berating Aspen City Manager Steve Barwick, and the gnatty Andrew Kole professing his preference for blondes.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: The Loony Bin of Aspen Politics
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Sister Agatha may be as waspish an Irishwoman as ever took the veil but she's an exceptionally good cook.
PROSECUTOR
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witty and waspish about his colleagues
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Mercurial, often waspish and at times given to unwarrantable snobbery, she was free to indulge herself, yet at the same time she was imprisoned by the constraints of the life that gave her all she wanted.
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Do they not sometimes get called waspish and shrewish by virtue of their very chastity?
Plutarch's Morals
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Even in the semi-formal surroundings of the Team GB press marquee there is a waspish chemistry between the pair, and an air of almost marital delicacy when the subject is broached of Grainger's recent outings with alternative partners during Watkins' recent injury break.
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins ready to put chemistry to the test
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The Argentine's waspish persistence and extraordinary retrieval made for some compelling rallies as he tried time and time again to bludgeon him into submission only to see the ball whistle back past his ears.
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Someday she'd tell him exactly what he could do with his job and his waspish remarks.
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He seems to be on the verge of agreeing in this lavish, Waspish enterprise.
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As Martinez drove down the great spine of the Avenida de América, and on into Castellana, it hit Mulcahy full-on just like the heat had: the car horns, the waspish buzz of scooters, the hurtling, bustling sense of humanity always on the move.
The Priest
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A talented young artist, he returns with a portfolio of animal sketches - and a sudden enthusiasm for Waspish, heartland values.
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His prose was crisp and waspish, but balanced and well informed, and he was able to deliver an authoritative opinion on a wide range of musical events.
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But that's ignoring the host of other immigrant entertainers who also altered their names to a more Waspish form; I think this kind of stuff deserves a programme of its own.
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My generation's first exposure to Agnes Moorehead wasn't her work for Orson Welles, but when she was well into her 60s and perfecting the waspish put-down of her daughter's attempts at domesticity on a weekly basis in Bewitched.
Spotted: an older woman on screen
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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.
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That much," she waspishly informed an imperturbable Myst, curled comfortably on a chair," is impossible to deny.
A RAKE'S VOW
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The DA20's waspish empennage and T-tail were still there, as was the short chord, long-span, high-aspect ratio wing with upturned winglets.
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Like all diaries, it reflects the mood of the diarist and hence is scrappy, which in turns becomes waspish, gentle, melancholy, flirtatious and always directed by the seasons, scents, gardens and clothes.
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That should have ended it, except that certain newspapers have grown irritable and waspish with Tony Blair.
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After one particularly bland interview, a reporter waspishly criticized the starlet.
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There is no waspish remark to follow and I am sorry if this outbreak of sincerity causes any distress.
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Her caustic, waspish comments on the other housemates were biting and bitchy, but always spot on.
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He fell completely beyond the arc of his waspish brain and acid tongue and so he seemed utterly confused by the reception he sometimes got.
The Grumpy Critic « Tales from the Reading Room
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And there's only so much waspish, scintillating badinage with Stereophonics one can take.
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Bill and I have been talking about the question of agency, or rather, I have been asking waspish questions and he has been replying with answers that turn into questions of his own.
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She had a waspish tongue which could hurt.
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Managing to hold his famously waspish tongue, he seemed at ease, a patron of the arts keen on charitable good works, as well as the kind of cause that many would consider lost.
Electric Proms: Elton John and Leon Russell – review
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On reflection, however, I feel this would be unlikely, because I cannot be alone in considering his regular waspish observations positive endorsement of a production.
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The administration that sold itself on simple homespun values and manly virtues has been caught in an act of waspish backstabbing to cover its dishonesty.
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The manager does not take punishment well, and is waspish in his responses to journalists who question his tactics and second-season signings.
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She brushed off my waspish words, and waved me away.
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But its contents rapidly dispel any fears that this most entertainingly waspish of commentators succumbed to beatific mildness in his final years.
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When in a particularly waspish mood, he wasn't above quoting a number as the door slammed.
GALILEE
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Are their early waspish criticisms insincere and their later affirmations the real deal, or are the affirmations the fakery and the waspishness the genuine thing?
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I suppose despite her waspish attitude she knows something about fashion.
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Her caustic, waspish comments on the other housemates were biting and bitchy, but always spot on.
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He inspected his young visitors with a quizzical, waspish look.
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She was intelligent, could be witty, if sometimes waspish, and always rated in the top five of the list of Most Popular Women of the Year.
MURDER SONG
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He also fancies himself a playwright, and approaches the well-heeled Mr. Dangle (Darragh Kennan) and the waspish Mr. Sneer (Jonathan Smoots), a pair of opinionated connoisseurs, in the hopes of enlisting their support for his latest effort, a tragedy called "The Spanish Armada" that ranks alongside "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" as the worst play ever written.
Those Who Cannot Do…
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His humour was waspish and admired even by those who were often the target.
