snippier; snippiest
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Examples of snippy in a Sentence
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get snippy with you.
snippy remarks about the quality of the food at the church picnic
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Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 Feb. 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
He was being snippy with other dogs and facing a medical issue so mysterious that every test had been run and a doggy MRI ordered.
—Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
See all Example Sentences for snippy
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“Snippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snippy. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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