Snappish

Whereas the workplace sex comedy Free Agents, featuring a mopey Hank Azaria and a snappish Kathryn Hahn, looks pretty toxic. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The interplay between the performers is lively and very sharp, from the easy, near-constant physical contact between the twins to the verbal deliveries that switch on a dime from singsongy to snappish. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In her real world, Coraline's snappish mother cleans while her father cooks unappetizing dishes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This self-referencing, snappish tone tracks with the president's "open mic" comments last week at a Chicago fund-raiser. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

You may well cry after, or during, this anti-comedy about whiny, snappish neurotics sharing an unbearably smug workplace that's about as inviting as Chernobyl. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The country made a huge leap electing a minority president; had at any point Obama gotten snappish or “angry” or remotely threatening, white America would have turned against him in a New York minute, and still would. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And when I bristle, I get kind of big-brotherly, in the snappish way. ❋ Chris Lynch (2011)

The market is roiling and everyone's a little snappish, especially after a few vacation rain clouds and a couple rum punches. ❋ Jason Gay (2011)

An unpleasant show about miserable people working in an environment (corporate public relations) that's about as welcoming as Chernobyl, this is the decidedly non-romantic story of newly divorced whiner Alex (Hank Azaria), who cries after sex and any time he hears a certain Archies song, and snappish co-worker Helen (Kathryn Hahn), who drowns her sorrows over her dead-too-soon fiancé, to whom she's turned her home into a creepy shrine. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Messrs. Davidson and Slocum were on the point of resolving their perplexity into wrath, as they went down the great stone stairway to the waiting carriage, but Mr. Crockett, the testy and snappish, muttered ecstatically: The son of a gun! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Did you find yourself a bit snappish at your partner or work colleagues. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One problem I identified: I was snappish and frustrated in the mornings, because I felt so rushed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Already in a snappish mood, he found it appalling that in the world of modern military transport it would take nearly two years to get those boots on the ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the season opener, Don, who typically is simmering beneath his charismatic, cool veneer, seems more snappish and tightly wound than ever. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The combination of fear and drugs turns all of the Codys into snapping, snappish predators trying hard to remember that these are family. ❋ Unknown (2010)