snippy

How to use snippy in a sentence

Every time I asked about their arrangements so I could request vacation time, she got snippy with me, so I let it go.

If you didn’t know better, you might think Greene was a character played by Mink Stole, the Waters lifer who specializes in snippy villains.

You will save yourself a lot of mental anguish by not getting snippy with store personnel.

It was a snippy sort of a look, Betty thought, that this girl directed toward her.

BETTY LEE, FRESHMANDAVID GOODGER (GOODGER@PYTHON.ORG)

The thing that I resent most is the mean remarks those snippy girls make about her.

Surely that snippy little note, in which you call me—me, a perfect stranger—names!

"Yes, or when you're put in a snippy little room 'way at the top of the house with nothin' in it," growled Nancy.

POLLYANNAELEANOR H. PORTER

Putty Doane was taken prisoner by the Germans atOh, see that gang of up-townersarent they snippy and patronizing and silly?

OUT OF THE AIRINEZ HAYNES IRWIN

Write that snippy Miss Page and demand her resignation from the team.

Several dogs howled in despair, but the snippy little animal only stretched out for a nap.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985