Now, don't get huffy—I was only teasing.
the comedy is about a huffy actress who loudly protests every perceived insult, no matter how slight
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He is seen as favoring Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank, to take over WEF, though her huffy exit this year from a dinner stacked with US government officials may make things awkward.—semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026 The first, rather vacuous season hinges in part on whether the Russells’ neighbor—the huffy, old-money Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski)—will ever cross Sixty-first Street to visit.—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 11 July 2025 Mister Terrific, who is not a humorous man but is very funny because of it, gets very huffy over Superman’s jibes and storms off.—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025 Inevitably all this tumult attracts the attention of a trio of huffy rival confectioners, Slugworth (Paterson Joseph), Prodnose (Matt Lucas), and Fickelgruber (Mathew Baynton).—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2023 Thus the mischief of the Allegretto scherzando was made more mischievous: Its huffy pace and hushed dialogues of oboes and flutes interrupted by scrubby strings.—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 13 May 2023