The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waspishly
Waspish \Wasp"ish\, a.
Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.
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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. [1913 Webster] -- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. -- Wasp"ish*ness, n.
Wiktionary
waspishly
adv. In a waspish manner.
Usage examples of "waspishly".
After all, as the third bookdealer pointed out waspishly, the printing presses of America poured out thousands of new books every year.