How to Use snappish in a Sentence

snappish

adjective

• The national press doesn't mention it much these days, but President Obama was being a little snappish himself all those years ago.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
• But even a young woman struggling with the patriarchal conundrum of cool-girl syndrome (to be independent and accepted) might reveal more of a snappish turn of mind than Grace does.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2026
• Jay goes to visit his other daughter in San Diego, and Jessica, played with snappish righteousness by Riley Keough, more or less hates him.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
• Lily, as played by Sophia Hammons, has a distinctive snappish downbeat British-princess personality; some of it is her accent, some of it her entitled ‘tude.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
• Instead, Helen is allowed to be irritable and anti-social, chain-smoking and snappish, without the filmmaker casting judgment.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025