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snarly

[snahr-lee] / ˈsnɑr li /


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Her understated androgyny was paired with a shout-singing vocal style that had a snarly, monotone curl laced with abandon and disregard for convention.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

It looked like a scene from one of the snarly zombie apocalypse series my husband keeps watching — far from the orderly museum visit Clyde is gaslighting his voters with.

From Washington Post May 17, 2021

Lugosi is lurching and clumsy as the monster, while Chaney is appropriately tortured as Larry but stiff and snarly as the Wolf Man, more man than wolf.

From Seattle Times Oct. 26, 2020

On TV, the snarly, petulant Paul, with his sprig of retro forehead curls, looked like a mummified Dorian Gray dressed by Sears Roebuck, circa 1959.

From Salon Mar. 24, 2016

“Oh, that’s right,” Katherine said, almost in the same snarly cat-fight voice she used when she was mad at her friends.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

When that rockabilly figure went on his long hiatus, the band morphed into Switchblade, still one of the snarliest, gnarliest bands to come out of D.C.

From Washington Post Nov. 30, 2022

He's the gruffest, snarliest, biggest man I ever knew—meaner than the devil, and the best friend on top of earth.

From The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love by Glaspell, Susan




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