waspish

Speech parts

1. waspish - Adjective

2. waspish - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

irascible irritable spiteful prickly petulant peevish testy bristly snappish splenetic moody wasp crabby huffy cross
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

cool as cucumber brawny chubby buxom friendly fat
Show all antonyms

Examples

bristly exchanges between the White House and the press Source: Internet

he became prickly and spiteful Source: Internet

witty and waspish about his colleagues Source: Internet

The TV dance judge tells the astonishing story in The Mail on Sunday’s Event magazine today, saying in typically waspish style: ‘That put a dampener on it.’ Source: Internet

Paul Walter is entitled to say what he likes as well as to be waspish in the telling. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

waspie waspily WASPiness waspishly waspishness WASPization