Home for Rumpole was a mansion flat off Gloucester Road, where he lived in a state of miserable, snappish fidelity to Hilda, "She Who Must be Obeyed".
She is hard-working, but also, indeed, a bit snappish and occasionally rude to patients.
Mari Kosin, of Seattle, quit her full-time job in 2013 to stay home with her two children, ages 7 and 4, because the strain of managing work, the commute, child care, activities and home demands, and the guilt of being away from her daughters, or being snappish and always feeling rushed with them, got to be too much.
But if she makes fun of "the way you never make eye contact with people," you might turn "snappish" and end up having your first "serious fight," one where feelings are "hurt".
When Bush, on Thursday, prefaced his belated definitive answer with a sighing, snappish "If we're all supposed to answer hypotheticals," the effect was unpleasant.
But after 6 weeks of long hours his health began to fail, he wasn't getting much reading done, & he became snappish at work.
Many in the crowd were liberal students — this was Ann Arbor, after all — who were nursing a grudge over Scalia's snappish minority opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 case in which the Court upheld an affirmative-action program at Michigan Law School.
Each half, naturally, requires the coöperation of the other, and you find yourself getting snappish with yourself; you find yourself cursing yourself for your clumsiness, your overeagerness, your lack of consideration for your other half.
ordered two beers in snappish, swallowed-up German.
She did not take well to the intimidation of writers and could be snappish, even haughty, when challenged herself.
He refused to elaborate, even getting into a snappish exchange with a reporter.
