snippy

Example Sentences

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Perhaps your friend was experiencing some anxiety about the day, which resulted in her being snippy with you.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 28, 2025

Instead, the Rangers head coach was was short, snippy and sombre.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

Lily is vain and snippy and about as convincingly English as if the only research into her character was a season of “The Great British Bake Off.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

There’s nothing more appealing than watching a snippy Ford say some of the most outrageous lines on TV.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2024

She laughed a lot, but never in a mean way, and sometimes if she didn’t sleep enough, she got really snippy and cranky, which only made Joaquin like her more.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway