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Waspish

adjective
1.
Very irritable.  Synonyms: bristly, prickly, splenetic.  "He became prickly and spiteful" , "Witty and waspish about his colleagues"






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"Waspish" Quotes from Famous Books



... about the room as if he had no care in the world. He hummed snatches of song. Mr. Jones raised his waspish eyebrows, at the sound. The secretary got down on his knees before an old leather trunk, and, rummaging in there, brought out a small looking-glass. He fell to examining his physiognomy in it ...
— Victory • Joseph Conrad



Words linked to "Waspish" :   bristly, ill-natured, splenetic, prickly



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