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waspish
adjective as in snappish
Example Sentences
So far targeted are Putin, allegedly the “world’s richest man” and his waspish foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.
But they also reveal a waspish, bitter man frequently disillusioned with film and theatre.
This brief, innocent encounter was talked up by the waspish gossip columnist Rona Barrett.
A better weapon than his waspish tongue was Parpon's voice, for it, before all, was persuasive.
She began to say very kind things to me in rather a waspish tone yesterday morning at breakfast.
When a man is touchy and waspish, he is always looking out for, and catching at, occasions of offence.
Her cutaway coat was buttoned tightly over a manly bosom, and her waist was not waspish.
Let her be a little less waspish and I will try to get along with her.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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