huffy
Example Sentences
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“Fine, don’t tell me what you’re up to,” I said with a huffy breath.
From Literature
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However, five weeks later she developed "huffy" breathing and in the days following was diagnosed with GBS after deteriorating in hospital.
From BBC
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
She has her hand propped on her hip and is very huffy.
From Literature
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Whenever it was on, I became huffy, knitting my brows and aggressively scrolling through my camera roll or Twitter in silent protest.
From Salon
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