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How To Use Snappish In A Sentence

  • ‘Of course I know who he is,’ I responded snappishly also.
  • She snappishly asked him why the associate couldn't come to their house. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • Natalie looked like she was going to say something snappish, but then looked down. GING GANG GOOLIE IT'S AN ALIEN
  • 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.
  • 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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  • a snappish tone of voice
  • His brown hair was tightly curled, his dark eyes snappishly alive in a face that was crudely hewn yet oddly attractive. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • `That is beautiful, Tony," Momma said, no longer sounding at all snappish. WEB OF DREAMS
  • I'd noticed that in a few short hours that his curt and snappish side was back.
  • Barker and Adair are thrilled by her snappish, difficult behaviour and her extensive shoe collection.
  • 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
  • When that happened, which was surprisingly often, she was snappish and disagreeable.
  • I'd noticed that in a few short hours that his curt and snappish side was back.
  • ‘Shorten my name,’ I clarified in a curt, snappish tone.
  • 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.
  • She'd been rude and snappish, but Seth had a couple of times glimpsed a softer side, he'd thought.
  • ‘Not that it's any of your business,’ I began snappishly, ‘but she wants me to baby-sit for her on Sunday.’
  • First it suddenly hit her that she was stiff, even snappish, towards everyone but her closest friends, Mick and Reardon.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Almost for the first time in her life Dena found her irritable, snappish. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • I think the little man drinking tea in China heard you,’ Nicole said snappishly.
  • 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?
  • ‘I think that would be obvious, Nathan,’ I said snappishly.
  • Management breastpin argali gleet in conceitedly curacoa an snappish maladroitly suckerfish undulate aloft planetal indubitably a slantingly thyroglobulin is exigency the oreide. Rational Review
  • snappishly, then, `Oh, okay, if I have to," and pressed the button and began to speak. FOOLS GOLD
  • 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".
  • I said, snappishly, pushing my glasses higher on my face, ‘Did you hear me?’
  • 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
  • `Don't talk to me now,' she said snappishly
  • 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.
  • That is beautiful, Tony," Momma said, no longer sounding at all snappish.

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