snuffy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for snuffy
Adjective
  • By the end, Liverpool’s players seemed tired and Klopp was irritable, clearly in need of a rest.
    Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The trio’s sixth record is charmingly irritable in both of its moods: hopped up on fluffy coffee while cracking baseball jokes, or dragging out downbeats and lamenting power structures to goad listeners with mounting anticipation.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Everyone within her radius bears the germophobe’s wrath, with the only one who can occasionally pierce through her bilious anger being her upbeat hair-stylist sister Chantal (Michelle Austin), a mother of two vibrant daughters.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The piece ran under an illustration of a black spatula dripping sinister goblets of melting plastic, against a background of bilious green.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Share [Findings] Marine biologists described the Red Sea’s grumpy dwarfgoby.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
  • These residents are forever loyal, even when grumpy, about their teams.
    CNN.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Keynes is a snappish but patient listener.
    Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • As Queenie, navigating empty relationships and professional disappointments on a journey from self-sabotage to self-worth, Brown makes a whole person from a variety of attitudes — hopeful, hopeless, hungover, exuberant, fretful, thoughtful.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Too many young people are anxious, fretful and socially isolated.
    Sarah Lent, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Rojas’s recollections weren’t peevish—fine work was produced under these conditions.
    Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The songs are muscular and syncretic as ever, but the normally peevish rapper doesn’t maintain his trolling energy for the full record, settling into a questioning and pensive pace.
    Stephen Kearse, TIME, 8 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Cunha reacted with a petulant bout of foot-stamping and flailing of arms in response to not receiving a cutback to the edge of the box.
    Steve Madeley, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Scott’s Tom Ripley was a clean break from that of Matt Damon; instead of a petulant pretty boy seized by envy and lust, this Ripley was older (Scott is in his late forties) and scarier, a lonesome manipulator with a murderous gleam in his eye.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The irascible superstar was suspended by the team after demanding to be traded, with the Warriors reportedly one of his preferred destinations.
    Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2025
  • As Bears coach, Ditka was confident enough in his position to accept the involvement of the irascible, disrespectful but skillful defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan as necessary to the team’s Super Bowl success.
    Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Snuffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuffy. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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