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Recent Examples of snuffy
These are among the reasons why summer may bring snuffy noses and sneezing.
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Julie Washington, cleveland, 26 May 2021
Julie Washington, cleveland, 26 May 2021
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On Monday, after Rodgers and former head coach Robert Saleh had spent several months bickering over topics such as unexcused absences and cadence, the irritable quarterback won out again.Rob Reischel, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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Within a couple of weeks of wearing the buds, my ears stopped having the irritable side effects.Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Oct. 2024
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Not altogether surprising because the proliferation of guns and incendiary political rhetoric over the past few decades — and especially the last few bilious years — made the shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa., seemingly just a matter of time.Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Rampant exposure to this movie on cable suggests that Scorsese’s bilious portrait of Jordan Belfort may soon join GoodFellas as one of the director’s most intensely rewatchable efforts.Will Leitch, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
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But with every diachronic update comes a new disruptor, and 5.0 offers up its own grumpy hero. Enter charming Nerd Face (Tuânminh Albert Ðo).David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
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But The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning mostly just uses its answering of any lingering questions (how did the grumpy old guy lose his legs?Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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The film’s co-star, Diane Kruger, plays several roles, notably Karsh’s late wife (seen in flashback) and her snappish veterinarian-turned-dog-groomer sister.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2024
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Keynes is a snappish but patient listener.Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
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There’s naïve Jill (Nicola Turner and then, in adulthood, Helena Wilson), excitable Ruby (Sophia Ally and Ophelia Lovibond), and fretful Gloria (Nancy Allsop and Leanne Best); and then—played by Lara McDonnell as a teen and by Donnelly in a pointed piece of double-casting as an adult—there’s Joan.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
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Which is neurotically fretful for a chef who prides himself on buying the very best ingredients in the market.John Mariani, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
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For all that, his Arthur remains a lowly outsider, with a downcast gaze, a peevish temper, and a deep well of melancholy that never feels one-note.Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
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The preternaturally peevish Pentecostal preacher is back and absent as ever.Kristen Baldwin and Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2023
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But if Coppola’s latest film echoes some ugly tendencies in tech, its actual aims feel more personal and petulant.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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Those preening, petulant, damn good San Diego Padres.Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
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Lewis could be briefly irascible, but his kindness almost always triumphed.Christopher Carroll, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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The strategy of rebalancing toward Asia thus makes sense but risks creating expectations that Washington will not be able to meet while feeding Chinese suspicions, which could lead to a far more irascible U.S.-Chinese relationship.Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2012
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“Snuffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuffy. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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