How to Use snippy in a Sentence

snippy

adjective
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  • I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get snippy with you.
  • Arthur Smith gets downright snippy if anyone tries to bring up the past in Atlanta.
    — Paul Newberry, ajc, 12 Sep. 2022
  • There is no need to be snippy to your baby’s close relatives.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Why wasn’t that snippy Mi Kyong being asked to stay after all her goof-ups?
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Snipe hunt: The San Francisco mayoral contest is off to a snippy start.
    — Willie Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Nick and the girls laugh at Melissa, who is stressed out and snippy, sending them on errands, frantically cleaning the house.
    — Meaghan O'Connell, Longreads, 20 July 2017
  • The pygmy marmosets are deeply adorable, and the snippy gharials would make excellent Muppets.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • What was supposed to be the nice-guy tête-à-tête was instead a snippy, tit-for-tat exchange in the key of conventional politics.
    — Alexander Burns, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Jex made a snippy remark to Katie, who was cleaning, then marched into their basement bedroom.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Biden and his campaign were quick to offer snippy responses about Trump before the election.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 2 Dec. 2020
  • So Danny and Tess, and thus Clooney and Roberts, have to generate enough heat and chemistry underneath the snippy surface to justify everything else in the movie.
    — Jason Bailey, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • But as the debate wore on, the exchanges between the candidates grew increasingly snippy.
    — Seema Mehta, latimes.com, 10 May 2017
  • His latest client just happens to be his sister-in-law Gwen (Mary-Louise Parker, at her most snippy and vocal-fried), the daughter of a late magazine publisher.
    — Jordan Hoffman, VanityFair.com, 23 Jan. 2017
  • But Jake’s snippy attitude gets him fired as the main man at the International Space Station, where the weather controlling system is run.
    — Rick Bentley, kansascity, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Employees said that some people who walked in without masks had made snippy remarks, but that all of them had followed the health protocols after they were reminded.
    — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Sam takes to trawling Facebook groups of like-minded wounded women, whose righteous comments and snippy crosstalk are made to sound realistic, and therefore, on the sober page, absurd.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Imagine Regina tossing off snippy burns and getting a peek inside Aaron's (beautiful) head.
    — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 10 Mar. 2017
  • In 2013 there was an uproar when a less abridged version of her diary came out, including a few snippy comments about others and frank talk about her body and budding sexuality.
    — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Bryan Banville in particular seems to be everywhere in roles from snippy narrator to extra-sensitive prince to taunting French knight.
    — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • Francis is portrayed as snippy and effete, but his politics are more uncompromising than Bernie Sanders’.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • If certain listeners get snippy at her channeling the Queen of Pop yet again, Gaga’s absolutely unbothered.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 June 2020
  • Yes, there are moments that offend, but Batt finds a precise balance between being snappy without becoming snippy.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 14 May 2018
  • In a classic comedy setup, Mr. Magni plays the disheveled title sad sack and Mr. Houben his snippy bureaucratic tormentor.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • But anyone who’s ever been crushed by a boss’s snippy retort during a meeting or felt humiliated after their manager lost their temper can attest that what seems like a small moment to a leader can feel like a very big deal to the underlings.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 12 May 2021
  • In snippy debates and in silent tension, with smidgens of hope and wheelbarrows of doubt, Americans processed the first hearings before the congressional committee investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol.
    — Andrea Eger Canfield, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • As the Trump and Biden campaigns swapped snippy statements publicly renegotiating their next debate, Georgia Republicans simply shrugged their shoulders.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 8 Oct. 2020
  • After interconnected satellites positioned around the planet to stop severe weather malfunction, the creative mastermind (Gerard Butler) who was fired for his snippy attitude is brought back to solve the issues.
    — Philly.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Neighborly: The popular app Nextdoor has developed something of a reputation as a conveyance for snippy, obnoxious, toxic comments (and worse) between neighbors and about neighborhoods.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Neighborly Dear Neighborly: The popular app Nextdoor has developed something of a reputation as a conveyance for snippy, obnoxious, toxic comments (and worse) between neighbors and about neighborhoods.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2021
  • House members getting snippy over constraints and badgering Senate colleagues to discard their precious gentleman’s rules is a regular facet of every reconciliation process.
    — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 13 Mar. 2017

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