waspish

1 What the book fails to underline quite as heavily is how waspish the maitre himself could be.

2 As Reve recounts those days, he is forced to admit many of his own failings, which are underscored by the visiting parish dean’s waspish manner and harsh words.

3 Bohr waspishly lectured G. P. Thomson of the Cavendish, who had been stumping for Cockcroft and Walton.

4 The veteran performer and outspoken fashion critic has won both fans and detractors with her acerbic remarks and waspish sideswipes at the rich and famous.

5 Edward Burne-Jones, nominally a friend, spoke waspishly of Leighton's poor taste in having "all those splendid things from the East built up in such a silly way".

6 As a brittle, waspish author, Kidman was horribly uncompromising, alienating everyone around her and some critics too, who just found it all a bit too nasty to watch.

7 Her waspish daughter, Libby, has recently been dumped, has her own caustic daughter in tow and is anxious about her inheritance.

8 After some misfires in which his roles accentuated the grating aspects of his Will Truman character in “Will & Grace,” Mr. McCormack goes for a more sympathetic mix of waspish and wounded in “Perception.”

9 Yes, bees can sting, but they are generally much more placid than such waspish creatures as yellowjackets and bald-faced hornets, and certainly more agreeable outdoor companions than biting flies.

10 Though the humor is better suited to short-form comedy than a feature, the movie will delight devotees of Mr. Coogan’s abrasive, waspish and strangely charming brand of satire.

11 The pair reunited a half-century later as the waspish elderly couple in the British sitcom “Vicious.”

12 In fact, he's a successful writer of detective mysteries, who bases his books on periods spent "embedded" with the NYPD, particularly the waspish Detective Beckett.

13 As role follows role, she can be sweet or waspish, furious or funny, nimble or tentative.

14 As this insightful, waspish book shows, the hidden similarities were greater than the visible differences.

正如这本深刻、尖锐的著作所指出的，暗藏的相似点大于可见的不同点。

15 At his waspish best, Mr. Wheatcroft is entertaining on all this.

16 “Well, good night to you,” he said a little waspishly, and he began to move out of sight again.

17 David Lowery’s film, in its relish for Redford’s waspish looks and smooth, movie-star charm, is itself a kind of swan song for a bygone version of the American man, solitary, sandy-blond and square-jawed.

18 It was Capote, not Vidal, who came up with the most waspish dismissal of Kerouac's work: "That's not writing, that's typing."

19 The author takes a waspish tone that doesn’t always enhance his arguments, but the book is an excellent distillation of a complicated menace.

20 Perhaps it doesn’t have the lightness and waspish asperity that we prize in a Smith performance, but this is fine work.

1 暴躁

fiery edgy irritable flaming peppery petulant ratty tetchy bile aggressive passionate explosive testy testily waspishly touchily tetchily touchiness tetchiness waspishness warm cross crusty fractious irascible hotspur rampage atrabilious volatile stormy snappy cranky hot-tempered choleric snappish

2 脾气暴躁

short irascible shrewish have a quick temper

3 暴躁的

fiery edgy irritable flaming peppery petulant ratty tetchy aggressive passionate explosive testy warm cross crusty fractious irascible hotspur atrabilious volatile stormy snappy cranky hot-tempered choleric snappish whiny bilious narky

4 脾气坏的

crankous cross ugly nasty grumpy livery crusty cranky cursed feisty surly streaky chippy cantankerous ornery vinegary ill-tempered crotchety stroppy bad-tempered peevish ill-natured splenetic liverish cankered grouty narky unamiable dorty snitchy spleeny rantankerous glumpy sour

5 讽刺

ironic sarcastic satirical wry allegoric ironically allegorically sardonically satirically thrust sting irony bitterness satire sarcasm skit stinger innuendo squib send-up wryness tilt lash satirize a nasty one dig at

6 易怒的

hot quick warm cross sharp passionate savage fiery irritable prickly techie touchy resentful spiky temperamental biliary streaky chippy petulant fractious raspy crabby thin-skinned irascible bristly snippy crabbed peckish gingery choleric fretful bilious stroppy snarly peevish snaky tetchy hoity-toity testy twitty splenetic pindling snuffy sorehead fretty unequable spleenful stomachy spleenish tempersome humorsome soreheaded iracund sour tense edgy snappy peppery ratty apoplectic snappish quick-tempered querulous liverish on a short fuse on edge hot-brained sensitive ugly brittle hasty brash ticklish hot-headed hot-tempered short-tempered ill-tempered hot-blooded rasped pettish umbrageous miffy snorty red-necked ireful ill-humored irritability scratchy ignorant crusty cranky combustible feisty grouchy crotchety bad-tempered short-fused a short fuse worrisome vinegary huffy atrabilious cross as two sticks uptight nervous crook waxy out of sorts crankous acid moody spunky techy dyspeptic roily passional grouty acidulated highty-tighty

7 讽刺的

ironic sarcastic satirical wry allegoric

8 易怒

hot quick warm cross sharp passionate savage fiery irritable prickly techie touchy resentful spiky temperamental biliary streaky chippy petulant fractious raspy crabby thin-skinned irascible bristly snippy crabbed peckish gingery choleric fretful bilious stroppy snarly peevish snaky tetchy hoity-toity testy twitty splenetic pindling snuffy sorehead fretty unequable spleenful stomachy spleenish tempersome humorsome soreheaded iracund sour petulance petulancy tense edgy snappy peppery ratty apoplectic snappish quick-tempered querulous liverish irascibility dyspeptic on a short fuse on edge hot-brained sensitive ugly brittle hasty brash ticklish hot-headed hot-tempered short-tempered ill-tempered hot-blooded rasped pettish umbrageous miffy snorty red-necked ireful ill-humored passionately edgily querulously pettishly waspishly tetchily crabbily irritability fieriness have a short temper cranky worrisome combustible feisty vinegary huffy atrabilious cross as two sticks uptight nervous crook crusty waxy crotchety bad-tempered temper out of sorts crankous acid moody spunky techy roily passional grouty acidulated highty-tighty testiness

9 恼怒的

brassed off cross annoying exasperated peeved

10 恼怒

brassed off bad cross annoying annoyed irritated exasperated peeved annoyance pique chagrin strop bug annoy displease chafe exasperate bug the crap out of bug the hell out of bug the shit out of rattle cage

11 尖刻的

acid salt severe sharp cutting edgy pungent scathing astringent shrill edged peppery scorching toothy acrimonious vitriolic acerbic piquant sharp-edged snippy gingery scalding sulfurous truculent acerb mordacious tart biting acidic barbed caustic snarky mordant smart devastating stinging withering spiky acrid catty trenchant vinegary pointed blistering choice searing

12 坏脾气的

cross ugly nasty ill feisty cantankerous ornery churlish ill-tempered splenetic atrabilious vixenish pindling pettish narky spleenful

13 祖先是英国新教徒的美国人

WASP

14 坏心肠

blackness

15 苗条的

slim slender willowy gracile withy jimp

16 似黄蜂的

vespine waspy

17 细腰

wasp waist

18 尖刻

acid salt severe sharp cutting edgy pungent scathing astringent shrill edged peppery scorching toothy acrimonious vitriolic acerbic piquant sharp-edged snippy gingery scalding sulfurous truculent acerb mordacious roundly severity acrimony pungency acerbity verjuice mordancy acidulate tart biting bite smart devastating stinging barbed caustic withering mordant sharply devastatingly scathingly waspishly acidity sharpness waspishness spiky acrid sting catty trenchant vinegary acidly vitriol be close to the bone pointed blistering choice searing

19 刻毒的

wicked shrewd sulfurous acrid

20 坏脾气

cross ugly nasty ill feisty cantankerous ornery churlish ill-tempered splenetic atrabilious vixenish pindling pettish narky spleenful crankily waspishly mood bile pout grouch crankiness bitchiness

21 脾气暴躁的

irascible shrewish

22 苗条

slim slender willowy gracile withy jimp gracility

23 易激动的

nervy hyper giddy combustible neurotic excitable inflammable

24 爱争吵的

argumentative disagreeable cantankerous quarrelsome

25 刻毒

shrewd acrid cruelty virulence acrimony acridity