snip·pet·y

(snĭp′ĭ-tē)

adj. snip·pet·i·er, snip·pet·i·est

1. Made up of snippets.

2. Informal Snippy; impertinent.

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snippety

adjective

Informal. Rude and disrespectful:

assuming, assumptive, audacious, bold, boldfaced, brash, brazen, cheeky, contumelious, familiar, forward, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, nervy, overconfident, pert, presuming, presumptuous, pushy, sassy, saucy, smart.

Informal: brassy, flip, fresh, smart-alecky, snippy, uppish, uppity.

Slang: wise.

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In an online rebuttal that was later removed from the McSweeney's website, Eggers complained that Kirkpatrick's article "threw skepticism where none was warranted" and was therefore little more than "a snippety little thing full of sneering and suspicion" written by "a hatchet wielder" ("Clarification" <http://web.archive.org/web/20010331103856/www.mcsweeneys.net/news/clar_nytimes.

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Hearing those snippety scissors whizz past your ear lobe is enough to keep any pre-schooler rooted to the spot.

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