Adjective, : a huffy mood. From Dictionary.com.
David's word; but David knew how to check that "huffiness"!. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Woman] Reference
The Clinton forces worked up an artificial huffiness over these ads. From Wordnik.com. [Go Ahead, Bust Some Chops] Reference
A kind of mulish huffiness in his expression made him look ridiculous and unlikeable. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
You might be reading a little huffiness in my tone and your reading would be accurate. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
Actually, I was rather rude with my huffiness and ordering her to the back of the line. From Wordnik.com. [Not My Finest Hour... - SpouseBUZZ] Reference
Mrs. Tallcat, always inclined towards huffiness at a moment's notice, consequently selected a chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
She's been a political animal all her life, meaning she is not going to have any public huffiness or outbursts of "pride". From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
I do bike occasionally, and I find myself getting similarly frustrated by slower-moving pedestrians, so I understand their huffiness to some degree. From Wordnik.com. [It’s time to drop some control rods into Critical Mass | Seattle Metblogs] Reference
Grievances are for peace time, when a general huffiness and stuffiness about the way that everyone else conducts business is natural and indeed expected. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914] Reference
Like many of these things they run out of steam, expectations vary wildly, tempers fray and the whole thing implodes in a flurry of huffiness ... or was it a fluffy of hurriness. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dunnett] Reference
This is turning out to be a great summer for lovers of cliches: France's football team is behaving with the kind of deliciously Gallic huffiness last seen from Pepe le Pew after being rejected by a suitor. From Wordnik.com. [Just who is interested in politicians' sex lives?] Reference
Roger, so very clever to say "before you get huffy," precluding huffiness at the part likely to cause it: "books eligible to receive them become subconsciously marked-down by the Newbery and Caldecott judges because they can win 'something else.'". From Wordnik.com. [Picking a (Prize) Fight] Reference
That's the real reason for the huffiness: Franken and his staff obviously don't know how Washington works yet -- you're supposed watch silently and courteously as special interests gut the urgently-needed provisions you've won for the American people. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Frank and Franken: The Gentleman From Massachusetts Wins One for Wall Street] Reference
He immediately fell in with my request, even breaking off in the middle of a sentence, and not only without the slightest sign of huffiness, but almost with pleasure, waving his hand mysteriously, as though to say, “I understand, I understand,” and though he did not actually say this he could not resist the satisfaction of walking out of the room on tiptoe. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
Obama's past has been met with real huffiness, at the very least. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
New Jersey, the amiable animosity of Atlanta, or the hard-pavement huffiness of. From Wordnik.com. [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference
Yes, it does cause huffiness but she has to put up with it if she wants a visit from me. From Wordnik.com. [HomePage - The Sun] Reference
But I think the real reason for Aaronovitch's huffiness is because someone failed to recognise how important he is. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman's Castle] Reference
They win, of course, though not without a certain amount of huffiness on their part at the impertinence of the challenge. From Wordnik.com. [half-pie] Reference
So, my first thought is that her huffiness is because she thinks that because we've been outside all day that I'm sukapok (dirty). From Wordnik.com. [Bill's Poker Blog] Reference
Pretty Woman through a lens of huffiness - is that every moment I was watching it, I was actually fighting and rejecting the movie's message. From Wordnik.com. [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference
Dr. Phil of real estate, but acknowledges that the huffiness and anger that some clients dish out when they hear the words "price cut" is genuine. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
Despite initial teenage huffiness, a summer job in an animal wildlife park gives her a sense of belonging and introduces her to the first real love of her life. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Record - Home] Reference
The listeners who'd been had could feel a bit silly for being taken in and then get over their huffiness and enjoy the show for what it really was: sparkling satire. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Later, displaying uncharacteristic huffiness, Kaberle was the first Leaf to respond when Matt Stajan was left crumpled on the ice by a neutral zone kapow courtesy of Johnny Boychuk. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
His wife of one year, played with perfect cocktail-party huffiness by Erin Joy Schmidt, is deeply embarrassed, even though she's the one who ordinarily "appreciates" things such as Sondheim. From Wordnik.com. [Miami New Times | Complete Issue] Reference
The Guardian, Wednesday 23 June 2010 great summer for lovers of cliches: France's football team is behaving with the kind of deliciously Gallic huffiness last seen from Pepe le Pew after being rejected by a suitor. From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
"My professional name, as I have had the honour and pleasure of explaining to you, is Lessie Lavigne, but in private" -- the dignity of the speaker's tone is marred by its extreme huffiness -- "in private I am Lady Beauvayse.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
Paula as played by Duse is sad and sincere, where the Englishwoman is only irritable; she has the Italian simplicity and directness in place of that terrible English capacity for uncertainty in emotion and huffiness in manner. From Wordnik.com. [Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory] Reference
But I have been determined that things should go smoothly, so I have never taken any notice, and when she came yesterday she seemed so nice and sweet again that I hoped she had got over her huffiness and we could be the chums we used to be. From Wordnik.com. [Rilla of Ingleside] Reference
More darkly, just below the surface of all this huffiness seems to lurk an itchy contempt for all those great unwashed million (s) who dare trample the fresh grass of a new channel of personal media ---- a lush and hidden abck yard previously reserved for the secret priesthood peopled by the author and his carefully selected tweeps. From Wordnik.com. [Advertising Age - Homepage] Reference
You'll know no kind of huffiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bab Ballads] Reference
I haven’t traveled in a while, so the kitties were in a particularly high state of huffiness as I packed. From Wordnik.com. [I refuse to eat the beans « Lab Kat] Reference
If more folks who are interested in these disparities took the investigative, evidence-based approach you’re advocating I think there would be a lot less huffiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Where Are The Women? A precious few were published in recent addition of the UCLA Law Review”:] Reference
I allow that I have no right to said huffiness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
She looked’at him with a kind of cold huffiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
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