snippy
/ˈsnɪpi
/adjective (snippier, snippiest) informal, chiefly North American
Curt or sharp, especially in a condescending way: a snippy note from our landlord...
- This little green-eyed troublemaker is sneaking up all over my relationship, through narrowed eyes, snippy retorts, and generally malicious thoughts.
- I apologize for being unnecessarily snippy and for overlooking, misunderstanding or inadvertently mischaracterizing the arguments of opponents.
- Mother, I have never heard that person be snippy to you or to anyone else.
Derivatives
snippily
- It's good, but not great: very disjointed, no coherent argument (as one critic has rather snippily pointed out) and appears to have some glaring omissions if you want to see it as a documentary.
- When I said I couldn't remember if I'd shopped there before, she huffed, and snippily asked me for my information.
- ‘You weren't living at home,’ Jen said snippily.
snippiness
- If you look past the occasional snippiness of the Post's reporter, it's not a bad portrait of person that most of us will find very sympathetic.
- The snippiness of his e-mail is worth noting, but I want to comment on its highly misleading content.
- She is well used to the snippiness of health professionals.