The word 'waspish' is correct and can be used in written English
It is an adjective that describes someone who is irritable, snappish, or spiteful. Example sentence: His waspish attitude resulted in his colleagues avoiding him altogether.
To an unsuspecting America – he'd already shown his true colours on UK TV on Pop Idol – Simon Cowell was the waspish, perma roll-necked quote generator whose aim was to destroy people's dreams one quip at a time.
MTV has already proven its ability to handle a waspish high school comedy in Awkward, but it can be proud of this sensitive new addition.
Her aunt Virginia Woolf (above) called her "Pixerina", crouched on a low stool to tell her waspish stories, and would hold out a long, bony arm to be kissed from the wrist to the elbow.
He gave a surreal, waspish speech, arguing, among other things, that the Sudanese government was sovereign and so had every right to do whatever it wanted in Darfur.
As this insightful, waspish book shows, the hidden similarities were greater than the visible differences.
He gave a surreal, waspish speech, arguing, among other things, that the Sudanese government was sovereign, so had every right to do whatever it wanted in Darfur.
Technically a coalition of small, anti-government parties, it is a young and angry force that excels at taking noisily to the street in waspish black and yellow, putting two fingers up to the Communist Party.
For those who like to think of bumblebees as the gentle cousins to other, more waspish varieties, the news of their criminal behaviour may come as a disappointment.
Once celebrated for his waspish one-liners, Mr Bildt no longer bothers to attack directly his chief political foe, the prime minister, Goran Persson.
A waspish advertising campaign with the title "Things I like and things I don't like about women" made some people wonder whether he really did love his rich clients as much as he said he did.
Churchill prized showy eloquence over deep knowledge, a very British bias that led him to ignore the finest brains of his age and rely instead for scientific advice on Frederick Lindemann, a waspish, snobbish Oxford don with the gift of the gab.
