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Waspishly
Waspish Wasp"ish, a. 1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp. 2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish. He was naturally a waspish and hot man. --Bp. Hall. Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. --Pope. Syn: Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy; peevish; captious. -- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. -- Wasp"ish*ness, n.

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- Look up WASP or wasp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A wasp is a type of flying insect. Wasp may also refer to: Several Marvel characters, including:...
- re****tion for having inherited her father's famously sharp tongue and waspish wit". Of her early public role, she has said: "It's not just about 'can...
- Financial Times, Sarah Hemming states "It’s obliquely timely, then, often waspishly funny, ultimately very moving and beautifully delivered by the superb...
- "Laughlin appears ticketed for the chief quipster's role, though he lacks the waspish wit of Straight Guy's Carson Kressley. Labrador is buff and ****y, and Teeson...
- day forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, When you are waspish. The spleen, as a byword for melancholy, has also been considered an actual...
- Huffington Post referred to Long's review as "not a review ... [but] a waspish response to other reviews." Richard Brody of The New Yorker included Moonlight...
- good reviews at the time, with Films and Filming calling him an "impish, waspish, Wilde-ian Holmes", while the New York Herald Tribune stated "Peter Cushing...
- was still legally married to Valentine Castlerosse at the time, the most waspish gossip columnist of the 1930s and the very last person an adulterer would...
- miscellaneous paragraphs under a symbolic drawing of 'Granny Herald' whose waspish features bore a resemblance to his own. He retired in February 1961. Ramsey...
- Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press. "'Insolent' Churchill, 'ignorant' Kitchener: waspish wartime diaries of Margot Asquith". The Guardian. 8 June 2014. Retrieved...