snappish
IPA: snˈæpɪʃ
adjective
- Likely to snap or bite.
- Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.
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Examples of "snappish" in Sentences
- It's made me quite snappish, however.
- Alright, sorry for being a bit snappish.
- Chihuahuas are snappish and temperamental.
- You seem all snappish, uneasy, and fretful.
- I'm sorry if the above seemed a bit snappish.
- Consequently, I'm in a somewhat snappish mood.
- Sorry for being a bit snappish about it, by the way.
- Again, sorry to be snappish, don't take it personally.
- Oh, and saying 'sorry to be snappish' does not fix it.
- And when I bristle, I get kind of big-brotherly, in the snappish way.
- Thanks for the constructive comments and sorry for the snappish reverts.
- In her real world, Coraline's snappish mother cleans while her father cooks unappetizing dishes.
- This self-referencing, snappish tone tracks with the president's "open mic" comments last week at a Chicago fund-raiser.
- Whereas the workplace sex comedy Free Agents, featuring a mopey Hank Azaria and a snappish Kathryn Hahn, looks pretty toxic.
- You may well cry after, or during, this anti-comedy about whiny, snappish neurotics sharing an unbearably smug workplace that's about as inviting as Chernobyl.
- The country made a huge leap electing a minority president; had at any point Obama gotten snappish or “angry” or remotely threatening, white America would have turned against him in a New York minute, and still would.
- Messrs. Davidson and Slocum were on the point of resolving their perplexity into wrath, as they went down the great stone stairway to the waiting carriage, but Mr. Crockett, the testy and snappish, muttered ecstatically: The son of a gun!
- An unpleasant show about miserable people working in an environment (corporate public relations) that's about as welcoming as Chernobyl, this is the decidedly non-romantic story of newly divorced whiner Alex (Hank Azaria), who cries after sex and any time he hears a certain Archies song, and snappish co-worker Helen (Kathryn Hahn), who drowns her sorrows over her dead-too-soon fiancé, to whom she's turned her home into a creepy shrine.