Adjective : a snappish reply. From Dictionary.com.
The entire essay is wry, hilarious, and biting, but this line stands out in particular as typifying the kind of snappishness that made Vonnegut's works so memorable. From Wordnik.com. [kemo666 Diary Entry] Reference
This, friends, was the kind of snappishness that started the whole Jon-is-whipped line of internet chatter that, I am convinced as a. From Wordnik.com. [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference
That's what I call an understandable bout of snappishness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Vin asked, trying to keep the snappishness out of her voice. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
If I'm stressed out, Kev and the kids usually bear the brunt of my snappishness. From Wordnik.com. [Kev Interviews Rubi!] Reference
There, for just a moment, was that famed sharpness and snappishness that I'd come to associate with her. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Apropos of Nothing] Reference
We already had the story of his snappishness when questioned about his talks with Kerry about the VP slot. From Wordnik.com. [‘McNasty’ Goes Back to School - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
"No, no, get that off there," Meder said in distracted snappishness as he lifted a flat ironbound box about a foot long onto the chair seat. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
This snappishness amazed and wounded the young man. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories] Reference
"Nonsense!" said Miss Tranter, affecting snappishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference
It was headaches with her and general snappishness of temper. From Wordnik.com. [Priscilla's Spies] Reference
Cursed snappishness to those under me, on a bodily indisposition. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference
Why go along with crossness, and coldness and snappishness in your life?. From Wordnik.com. [How to Live a Holy Life] Reference
They had to put up with his gruffness and snappishness, and to do it without a murmur. From Wordnik.com. [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference
What had been a sort of good-humoured condescension was altered into absolute snappishness, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)] Reference
The birch is also a sweet wood for the hearth, with a sort of spiritual flame and an even temper, -- no snappishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
Another, the little dark chap whom Donovan had punished for his snappishness, was almost continually slapping and cuffing the rest about. From Wordnik.com. [Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'] Reference
"Ms. Garofalo, in a lovely, winning performance, gives Abby lots of heart while also making defensive snappishness a big part of her charm.". From Wordnik.com. [DarienLibrary.org - It's for You!] Reference
Except Mr Forester Dale, and he, I regret to say, made himself a perfect nuisance to everybody on board by his snappishness and irascibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific] Reference
If the owners could only realise the importance of ridding them of these ever-noisome pests, there would be far less of snappishness, mange, fits, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Dogs] Reference
If we receive a snappish answer, let us not resent it, but blame the illness and be grateful if, along with the snappishness, we find out what suits our patient best. From Wordnik.com. [Nerves and Common Sense] Reference
If further proof of this were wanted the spirit of conscious rectitude & the calm & dignified rebuke to snappishness conveyed in the response would be more than sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, September 25, 1856] Reference
To the children he speaks in kindly diminutives, but to his wife his address might, to the uninitiated, sound somewhat harsh, while her replies might savour of snappishness. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
She held her head higher than formerly, spoke with habitual decision which bordered on snappishness, and at times displayed the absentmindedness of one who in silence suffers wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
But what was different was his petty snappishness, at Peggy over the Patio campaign, at Roger over his family troubles, at the kids over noise at home, at the Brits over the Madison Square Garden account. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
Was that the reason for my snappishness at the ME’s office?. From Wordnik.com. [Spider Bones] Reference
A sort of spiritual flame and an even temper, -- no snappishness. From Wordnik.com. [Backlog Studies] Reference
I’m very much enjoying the outbreak of irritability in this episode that has resulted in an ongoing crossfire of snappishness. From Wordnik.com. [By the Blight of the Silvery Moon: Mad Men Postmortem: James Wolcott] Reference
Practised hand though she was at concealing surprise, and rightly attributing Richard’s snappishness to the want of a good hot cup of coffee, Mary could not help echoing his words, her hairbrush suspended in the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
"It seems to me," Easton went on without paying any regard to the snappishness of Skinner's tone, "that though we cannot make ourselves any heavier, weight is not after all the only thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition] Reference
Her snappishness has scared the maids. From Wordnik.com. [The Far Horizon] Reference
Besides, her toy-terrier snappishness was comic. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Silence] Reference
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