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How to use waspish in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word waspish? Here are some examples.

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There is no waspish remark to follow and I am sorry if this outbreak of sincerity causes any distress.
That should have ended it, except that certain newspapers have grown irritable and waspish with Tony Blair.
Charles Wood's script, which uses a stylised form of period dialogue, offers a waspish satire of the Victorian military Establishment.
But can gyrating a day-glo hoop around the middle really give you a waspish waist?
His humour was waspish and admired even by those who were often the target.
The manager does not take punishment well, and is waspish in his responses to journalists who question his tactics and second-season signings.
Private thoughts made public reveal a waspish view of the world which readers may find surprising.
And there's only so much waspish, scintillating badinage with Stereophonics one can take.
If there were more money in it, he would clearly have made an astute, if waspish critic.
The DA20's waspish empennage and T-tail were still there, as was the short chord, long-span, high-aspect ratio wing with upturned winglets.
He inspected his young visitors with a quizzical, waspish look.
Are their early waspish criticisms insincere and their later affirmations the real deal, or are the affirmations the fakery and the waspishness the genuine thing?
The administration that sold itself on simple homespun values and manly virtues has been caught in an act of waspish backstabbing to cover its dishonesty.
She knew it was waspish, and ill-spirited and petty, and mean.
But its contents rapidly dispel any fears that this most entertainingly waspish of commentators succumbed to beatific mildness in his final years.
I suppose despite her waspish attitude she knows something about fashion.
He is particularly good at the waspish one-line character summary.
Still, if you compare the film with other such chick flicks, it's jauntily efficient, with enough waspish one-liners to offset the mawkishness.
As this insightful, waspish book shows, the hidden similarities were greater than the visible differences.
I would add that I am conscious of some of the waspish remarks made about what happens in my country.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Do they not sometimes get called waspish and shrewish by virtue of their very chastity?
After, dull booming of distant artillery, or waspish whinings of kettledrums.
The waspish little mutiny was so amusing that Si had to smile in spite of himself.
When a man is touchy and waspish, he is always looking out for, and catching at, occasions of offence.
Her cutaway coat was buttoned tightly over a manly bosom, and her waist was not waspish.
When people made him angry he retorted to them with waspish sarcasms.
In temperament he was weak and waspish, and his health had suffered heavily from oriental experiments with opium.
In fact, this country's arguably most popular novelist had an enjoyably sharp, waspish sense of humour.
The controversial writer and broadcaster, famed for his waspish putdowns, appeared on TV shows such as Have I Got News for You and Celebrity Big Brother.
Known for his cut-glass accent and waspish wit, he won legions of fans guesting on TV shows such as Have I Got News for You and Celebrity Big Brother.
When not boozed up, she's swallowing prescription drugs like Smarties and delivering waspish one-liners to anyone trying to help, particularly her long-suffering housemaid.
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