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Snappishness

noun
1.
A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger.  Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, surliness, temper.





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"Snappishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... mysteries of creation, but I know it is so. I know they will come home more placider, more serener, and more settled-downer. Why I have known a short tower to Slab City or Loontown act like a charm on my pardner, when crossness wuz in his mean and snappishness wuz present with him. I have known him to set off with the mean of a lion and come back with the liniment of a lamb. ...
— Samantha at Saratoga • Marietta Holley
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... sarcastic, or despondent allusions to the proverbial longevity and obstinacy of easterly winds in general. Except Mr Forester Dale, and he, I regret to say, made himself a perfect nuisance to everybody on board by his snappishness and irascibility. The weather was "beastly," the ship was "beastly," and his demeanour was such as to suggest to the other passengers the idea that he considered them also to be "beastly," a suggestion which they ...
— The Pirate Island - A Story of the South Pacific • Harry Collingwood
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Words linked to "Snappishness" :   biliousness, ill nature, querulousness, snappish


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