The word
"snippy" means someone who is short-tempered, impolite, or sharp in their tone or behavior.
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It won't cover your personal belongings or your liability if, for example, your dog
gets snippy with the mailman.
There's no way I'd have been ready for my mother's arrival if I'd spent an hour getting
snippy with six - year - olds about not paying attention.
I could come back with lots
of snippy arguments as to why they are wrong in their assumptions that we are not as tired as they are, but I'm not going to stoop to their level.
If you can not restrain yourself from making
snippy comments, let the program work for you.
Which is all besides the point that if your argument is that too many articles flag up Reyes» DV issue,
making snippy remarks about it in the comments section of an article that specifically DOES N'T mention it is ill - advised at best, bordering on straight trolling.
The atmosphere is nice, the beer's cold, and you don't get
snippy when I put my feet on the furniture.
Has being cooped up this winter season got you feeling a
little snippy with your partner?
Some have been known to
become snippy when they are frightened because very young children tend to move quickly and make loud noises.
If you've played nicely and the blessing still
feels snippy, then I'd advise you to associate with a more civilized crowd.
I don't mean to
sound snippy — again, all for links and such and I do read a fair amount of what people reference — but sometimes it f = just feels like a cope - out for people actually thinking for themselves or having to face questions they don't have rehearsed answers to.
Be aware that these sites don't promise you promotion, so don't get
snippy if your ebook doesn't appear.
At first came angry disbelief, illustrated
in snippy social - media comments about the vulgarity of Leave voters.
She's doing what George Clooney did in «Michael Clayton» but backwards, in heels, and with an avalanche of
snippy dialogue from first - time screenwriter Jonathan Perera.
At Hershey, that means posting recipes like double - chocolate pretzel brownie bites and a steady stream of
snippy social media posts for younger - minded brands like Jolly Rancher.
I know a couple on their first child, and they speak of the 2 am
snippy fights as something they're afraid will wreck their marriage.
I wasn't trying to
be snippy with Annan; I find his online persona to be thoughtful and quite pleasant, quite unlike certain others.
These arguments invariably devolve
into snippy exchanges about the Genesis version of creation and unfold in a rhetorical no - man's - land somewhere between King James and Watson and Crick.
She, in a
very snippy tone, tells me that yes, I did check that.
A: Yes, we had a whole litter that was just really lacking in bone with
snippy muzzles, which whole litter has been petted out.
But his mood
turned snippy when a reporter asked if CompStat's reliance on numbers promoted ticket quotas.
Comparisons to Meryl Streep are well - deserved in the case of Saoirse Ronan, and even those among us who are
still snippy over that recent SNL Aer Lingus «comedy» sketch really want her to win an Oscar this year for the much talked about movie Lady Bird, writes Ed Power
The nostalgia play in this case is still creating a sort of cultural elitism you'll find in obscure Reddit threads,
snippy Facebook comments, and exclusive Buzzfeed quizzes.
He was a hard grader and he had no time for fools and mountebanks and silliness in his class, which meant that most of us feared and disliked him and thought him autocratic and spent far more time making
snippy jokes and finding endlessly creative ways to waste class time than we did paying attention to the subject or Mister Bossy's steady undramatic efforts to teach us basic biology.
I've tried and failed to figure out exactly what triggers all of us into being
really snippy at each other during this time of day.
OBs aren't dismissive but might get
snippy especially if the patient is arguing with them while trying to save the baby.
I also feel like I have turned into this awful, short
tempered snippy person bc that's just how toy survive here.
Brando presents a nicely laid - back turn in which he conveys his disdain with acid looks and
snippy quips rather than grand bravado.
In 1999, Saldana received what seemed to be the ideal first film role when she was cast as a talented but
snippy dancer vying for a spot at the fictional American Ballet Company in the dance drama Center Stage.
Both go a little gooey for the other (shocker), but those heart stirrings are stifled by a surprise revelation: Steve is actually the fiancé of Mary's prized new client, the nouveau riche Fran (a snappy,
snippy Wilson - Sampras, in one of the few genuinely funny performances here).
What ultimately sinks this stylish but heartless film is a flat lead performance by the
eternally snippy Meg Ryan.
they get to fully indulge their passion for the early 1950s MGM era of cinema, covering everything from camp musicals and
snippy romantic dramas to classic cowboy capers and epic historical films.
But dually, The Imitation Game is also a pacy thriller, in which the race against time to crack the enigma code is given a priceless importance and in
which snippy Turing is an unlikely hero.
In its Scepter mode, it granted Loki zappy powers and the ability to manipulate minds, and its mere presence made the Avengers
more snippy than baseline.
Directors Anthony and Joe Russo cut their teeth on such urbane,
snippy TV sitcoms as Arrested Development and Community and the film begins brightly, with some inspired comedy concerning the Cap's growing laundry list of post-WWII must - see cultural artefacts and baffling culinary innovations.
Today in «older actors from beloved franchises getting
kinda snippy with the press about reboots» news, Michael Keaton and William Shatner are... well, doing that.
In most of the cases I'd cite, things went too far and the author, rather than backing away or trying to end things politely, got
increasingly snippy back.
By day, Garcia is the fashion director of Marie Claire, although I know and love her as the no - nonsense (and
occasionally snippy) judge of the best reality TV show in the history of reality TV shows: Project Runway.
Today, we have all kinds of mixed breed dogs, Great Danes with Golden Retriever legs,
snippy headed American Eskimos, etc..
At first, Leonidas wasn't exactly a model patient (we'd get
snippy too if people were constantly poking us with needles), but he showed that he's a scrapper.
We've got a blue heeled and she is really good with most dogs (she gets
reall snippy with dogs that are bigger than her), and the family cat.
While
smallish snippy comments such as, «Dad never remembers to clean up his mess» may not seem to have the same impact that more intense talk does — such as, «Your mother is a terrible person and a bad parent» — either type of speech can damage relationships and make him wonder if those sentiments carry over to him, too.
I too enjoy hospitality and have felt bad at the end of the night for
how snippy I was with my family right before guests came.
I think the most important thing to remember is that
little snippy fights are gonna happen.