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Significats de waspish en anglès

Very irritable.

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Examples for "prickly"
Examples for "prickly"
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However, given the prickly undercurrent, today may not be the best day!
The South African
2
Government and business relations between Singapore and Indonesia have historically been prickly.
Reuters
3
For a similar reason, the actual prickly pears themselves are attractively coloured.
Science in Arcady
4
Any mention of her former colleagues is bound to make her prickly.
The Naked God
5
My body is mostly numb, but I'm beginning to feel prickly sensations.
The Menstruating Mall
1
The bristly ridge of its chine showed black against the red west.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst o...
2
His long arms almost strangled me; his bristly mustache scratched my cheek.
Jezebel's Daughter
3
They were still comically stiff-legged and bristly as they aloofly sniffed noses.
Michael, Brother of Jerry
4
His pocked cheeks and bristly dome would enhance his gaunt, sinister mien.
The last page
5
Lou's thin face reddened up to the roots of his bristly hair.
O Pioneers!
1
To scorn and revile wealth is the mere resource of splenetic poverty.
The Unclassed
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That he was occasionally splenetic in his disposition is very manifest.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 / A Magazine...
3
He walked about and ejaculated splenetic phrases on the subject of his ill-luck.
New Grub Street
4
Sharp and Rogers both speak of him as an unpleasant, affected, splenetic person.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
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For those are my sentiments in that splenetic humour, which governs me at present.
A Treatise of Human Nature
Ús de waspish en anglès
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I should point out that Liew is a waspish but well-liked journalist.
The Guardian
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She bit down a waspish response to the intrusion and looked up.
Gladiatrix
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If so, will have the same elegantly waspish concern for standards?
The Irish Times
4
Even she was waspish, fed up with the pettiness they were all displaying.
The Naked God
5
Beyond the window, Didi could hear the high waspish whine of the freezing wind.
Mine
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The insect is as large as a hornet, and has a most waspish appearance.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
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That voice, high-pitched and waspish, struck him with fresh dread.
Speaks the Nightbird
8
The tone was waspish, but no less threatening for that.
Complete Books of Blood
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With a waspish sniff Toys said, "So, tell me about the happy couple."
Patient Zero
10
His humour was often waspish and he enjoyed puns.
The Guardian
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Thus she carried within herself the magic that drew from waspish circumstance its sharpest sting.
Fairy Fingers / A Novel
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A shudder swept her at the thought of being prey to her waspish aunt again.
The spurned viscountess
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Mr. Jones raised his waspish eyebrows, at the sound.
Victory: An Island Tale
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Even the entertaining waspish humour which once studded his interviews and pronouncements has dried up.
The Irish Times
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Once only-thislast time-stung, goaded into it by the lash of Mrs. Walraven's waspish tongue.
The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week
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When she chose, his sister's tongue could be waspish.
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