huffy
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They could also vote on huffy resolutions declaring their distaste for Boasberg et al.
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2025
If you argue with the obvious implications, they'll just get huffy and deny that's what they meant.
From Salon • Jan. 10, 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
“Oh, don’t get all huffy about it,” says Zeke.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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