Bad-tempered

Usage examples of waspish.

Kashet was restive and a little waspish after the long night without food, but in the other pens, Vetch heard hisses and whines, the snapping of jaws, and the curses of the dragon boys.

Eric had disappeared, his character superseded by a more waspish persona, an alter-ego that regarded the punters through cynical spangled eyes for a moment before slipping between the mouldy red velvet curtains and acknowledging the entrance music to the roar of an appreciative crowd.

He was seated between an inquisitive Aztecan girl who said she was a holocast dramatist and a waspish little man who called himself a presolar historian.

His first waspish buzzings had forced authority to interfere with the press.

All the outward evidence suggested that the government remained blissfully unaware of waspish buzzings and was totally unconcerned about the existence of an imaginary Dirac Angestun Gesept.

Often she castigated herself for such shows of childishness, but Cressida was no "Patient Griselda' however often she promised herself that she would make an effort to curb this tendency towards waspish hess She was an excellent horsewoman and did not find the long hours in the saddle too trying.

This, and the fact that Aspinwall rather than himself had been asked to write the appreciation of Giles which appeared in that same programme, had made Tuke very waspish, and he had threatened to sue Monica for seizing the physical assets (a cardboard box of sub­scribers' cards, five muddled files of dog-eared correspondence, a complete run of the magazine, and three cartons of assorted trash) of Lantern.

In a voice that tried not to be waspish, Major Humphreys called back: "Don't be melodramatic, Paul.