as in irritable
easily irritated or annoyed
I always start feeling snappish whenever I get really hungry
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Recent Examples of snappish
Instead, Helen is allowed to be irritable and anti-social, chain-smoking and snappish, without the filmmaker casting judgment.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Harriette Cole: My twins are getting snappish over college acceptance
Asking Eric: A cemetery guard ruined my father’s funeral, and that was just the start
This includes stating your belief that your explanations may not be believed.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
But Poker Face in general has a snappish rhythm, a retro luster, a good eye for the lonely grandeur of American nowhere towns.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 25 Jan. 2023
Keynes is a snappish but patient listener.
—Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
Here the journalist is Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), a snappish, once prominent reporter whom Louis encountered half a century ago in San Francisco.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Harriette Cole: My twins are getting snappish over college acceptance
Asking Eric: A cemetery guard ruined my father’s funeral, and that was just the start
This includes stating your belief that your explanations may not be believed.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
But Poker Face in general has a snappish rhythm, a retro luster, a good eye for the lonely grandeur of American nowhere towns.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 25 Jan. 2023
Keynes is a snappish but patient listener.
—Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
Here the journalist is Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), a snappish, once prominent reporter whom Louis encountered half a century ago in San Francisco.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snappish
irritable
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Rather than get irritable online, Medeiros did something positive about it.—
Dan Medeiros,
The Herald News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Manic episodes are described as prolonged periods of mood instability, in which a person can experience extreme increases in energy or euphoria, or alternatively, feel depressed or unusually irritable.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Snappish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snappish. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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