huffy

Example Sentences

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They could also vote on huffy resolutions declaring their distaste for Boasberg et al.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2025

However, five weeks later she developed "huffy" breathing and in the days following was diagnosed with GBS after deteriorating in hospital.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2024

During the course of the TV show “Frasier,” its main character was described as pompous, loquacious, overanalytical, pushy, pretentious, bossy, huffy, vain … and those are just the words used by his loved ones.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023

Whenever it was on, I became huffy, knitting my brows and aggressively scrolling through my camera roll or Twitter in silent protest.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2023

I could have gotten huffy and acted like, ooh, poor me because you can’t have two best friends and wah, wah, wah.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart