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Recent Examples of snippy The Next Generations and had recurring roles as the snippy Emma Johnson on NBC’s 227 and as a judge on ABC’s The Practice. Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 21 June 2025 Television reviewer Gary Deeb has been described as arrogant, snippy, opinionated, demanding and a host of other adjectives, some printable. Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025 Julia Michaels and Maren Morris are feeling snippy. Marina Watts, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025 In a high-pressure world of presidential campaigns, her arrival brought some measure of stability to the traveling roadshows and a professionalism to exhausted and snippy candidates. Philip Elliott, TIME, 20 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for snippy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snippy
Adjective
  • Yacobi’s defense attorney, however, countered with the findings of a forensic pathologist who said Violet died from blunt force trauma consistent with a fall from a second-story balcony.
    Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The coroner listed her cause of death as traumatic blunt force injuries and the manner of death as accidental.
    Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • If you are rushed or irritable, say so.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • These early years emphasized goofiness, offensiveness, and mocking arrogant celebrities who pushed their platforms at award shows.
    Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The announcement was made during a backstage segment involving NXT General Manager Ava and the arrogant superstar Lexis King.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • After reviewing former Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen’s explanation of his abrupt resignation, a Hamilton County judge has agreed to block attorneys’ attempts to question the long-time head of the supermarket giant about his departure from the retailer in open court.
    Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Just six months ago, Mako could not be touched on his face without showing his teeth and would react to any abrupt hand movements.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Kerouac’s pretentious hitchhiker’s guide lacked the panache, humor, and focus of this one by Douglas Adams.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Swift making herself into a tortured poet trying to outdo a pretentious, typewriter-wielding ex.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • On its opening day, multiple patients from UHI made the short walk across Fisherman Street to the big blue bus to wait for their names to be called.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The advent of short-form cricket has seen fielding standards rise rapidly in the past decade.
    James Wallace, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Guigal’s strategy isn’t built on pompous conservatism, but in long-term thinking.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Louis Partridge will take on the scheming Mr Wickham, with Jamie Demetriou playing the pompous Mr Collins, Daryl McCormack as Jane’s beloved Mr Bingley, Siena Kelly as his sister Caroline and Shaw as the fearsome Lady Catherine de Bourg.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Busta also received an assist from Papoose and Joyner Lucas, all of them sharing lyrical wordplay and seamless tradeoffs as Busta swung between his trademark dichotomy of rapping to gruff bellowing.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Old Man was short and gruff and had chin whiskers.
    Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Snippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snippy. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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