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adjective ˈwɒspɪʃ North American See Wasp Example sentencesExamples - But that's ignoring the host of other immigrant entertainers who also altered their names to a more Waspish form; I think this kind of stuff deserves a programme of its own.
- A talented young artist, he returns with a portfolio of animal sketches - and a sudden enthusiasm for Waspish, heartland values.
- Both he and Woods, who played in the same 1995 Walker Cup side, are blazing a trail for ethnic minorities on the US Tour, which is still dominated by golfers of a Waspish background.
- He seems to be on the verge of agreeing in this lavish, Waspish enterprise.
- While no doubt a few of the neighbors were dismayed by this violation of Waspish color preferences, the effect was both unexpected and charming.
adjective ˈwɒspɪʃ Readily expressing anger or irritation. Example sentencesExamples - Bill and I have been talking about the question of agency, or rather, I have been asking waspish questions and he has been replying with answers that turn into questions of his own.
- Nehemiah, who goes with Christ-like love to a ruined Jerusalem, may have lived on in my mind, but my spirit was overtaken by a waspish bitterness that contradicted in my life what I had tried to argue in my book.
- He inspected his young visitors with a quizzical, waspish look.
- Are their early waspish criticisms insincere and their later affirmations the real deal, or are the affirmations the fakery and the waspishness the genuine thing?
- The manager does not take punishment well, and is waspish in his responses to journalists who question his tactics and second-season signings.
- Private thoughts made public reveal a waspish view of the world which readers may find surprising.
- The administration that sold itself on simple homespun values and manly virtues has been caught in an act of waspish backstabbing to cover its dishonesty.
- She knew it was waspish, and ill-spirited and petty, and mean.
- Her waspish tongue has already landed her in trouble.
- She brushed off my waspish words, and waved me away.
- Mercurial, often waspish and at times given to unwarrantable snobbery, she was free to indulge herself, yet at the same time she was imprisoned by the constraints of the life that gave her all she wanted.
- There is no waspish remark to follow and I am sorry if this outbreak of sincerity causes any distress.
- That should have ended it, except that certain newspapers have grown irritable and waspish with Tony Blair.
- But its contents rapidly dispel any fears that this most entertainingly waspish of commentators succumbed to beatific mildness in his final years.
- Like all diaries, it reflects the mood of the diarist and hence is scrappy, which in turns becomes waspish, gentle, melancholy, flirtatious and always directed by the seasons, scents, gardens and clothes.
- I suppose despite her waspish attitude she knows something about fashion.
- His humour was waspish and admired even by those who were often the target.
- He is particularly good at the waspish one-line character summary.
- On reflection, however, I feel this would be unlikely, because I cannot be alone in considering his regular waspish observations positive endorsement of a production.
- His prose was crisp and waspish, but balanced and well informed, and he was able to deliver an authoritative opinion on a wide range of musical events.
Synonyms irritable, touchy, testy, irascible, cross, snappish, cantankerous, splenetic, short-tempered, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, foul-tempered, moody, crabbed, crotchety, grumpy, huffy, ratty, petulant, peevish, querulous, angry, sharp informal grouchy Northern English informal mardy
adjectiveˈwäspiSHˈwɑspɪʃ Readily expressing anger or irritation. Example sentencesExamples - Her waspish tongue has already landed her in trouble.
- Are their early waspish criticisms insincere and their later affirmations the real deal, or are the affirmations the fakery and the waspishness the genuine thing?
- Like all diaries, it reflects the mood of the diarist and hence is scrappy, which in turns becomes waspish, gentle, melancholy, flirtatious and always directed by the seasons, scents, gardens and clothes.
- But its contents rapidly dispel any fears that this most entertainingly waspish of commentators succumbed to beatific mildness in his final years.
- Mercurial, often waspish and at times given to unwarrantable snobbery, she was free to indulge herself, yet at the same time she was imprisoned by the constraints of the life that gave her all she wanted.
- The manager does not take punishment well, and is waspish in his responses to journalists who question his tactics and second-season signings.
- He is particularly good at the waspish one-line character summary.
- Nehemiah, who goes with Christ-like love to a ruined Jerusalem, may have lived on in my mind, but my spirit was overtaken by a waspish bitterness that contradicted in my life what I had tried to argue in my book.
- His humour was waspish and admired even by those who were often the target.
- That should have ended it, except that certain newspapers have grown irritable and waspish with Tony Blair.
- His prose was crisp and waspish, but balanced and well informed, and he was able to deliver an authoritative opinion on a wide range of musical events.
- The administration that sold itself on simple homespun values and manly virtues has been caught in an act of waspish backstabbing to cover its dishonesty.
- I suppose despite her waspish attitude she knows something about fashion.
- On reflection, however, I feel this would be unlikely, because I cannot be alone in considering his regular waspish observations positive endorsement of a production.
- Bill and I have been talking about the question of agency, or rather, I have been asking waspish questions and he has been replying with answers that turn into questions of his own.
- He inspected his young visitors with a quizzical, waspish look.
- Private thoughts made public reveal a waspish view of the world which readers may find surprising.
- She brushed off my waspish words, and waved me away.
- She knew it was waspish, and ill-spirited and petty, and mean.
- There is no waspish remark to follow and I am sorry if this outbreak of sincerity causes any distress.
Synonyms irritable, touchy, testy, irascible, cross, snappish, cantankerous, splenetic, short-tempered, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, foul-tempered, moody, crabbed, crotchety, grumpy, huffy, ratty, petulant, peevish, querulous, angry, sharp
adjective North American See Wasp Example sentencesExamples - While no doubt a few of the neighbors were dismayed by this violation of Waspish color preferences, the effect was both unexpected and charming.
- Both he and Woods, who played in the same 1995 Walker Cup side, are blazing a trail for ethnic minorities on the US Tour, which is still dominated by golfers of a Waspish background.
- He seems to be on the verge of agreeing in this lavish, Waspish enterprise.
- But that's ignoring the host of other immigrant entertainers who also altered their names to a more Waspish form; I think this kind of stuff deserves a programme of its own.
- A talented young artist, he returns with a portfolio of animal sketches - and a sudden enthusiasm for Waspish, heartland values.
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