: characterized by angry or irritable snarling or surliness
The dog was black and snarly … Laurence Sheehan
Despite his nickname, Hasek is a reticent man, earnest, sometimes snarly with the media. E. J. Hradek
Whoever would have expected to look fondly back upon Walter Winchell's snarly narration … Ralph Novak
The mere idea of taking this step and meeting their in-laws sends both of them into such paroxysms of anxiety they become instant boors, snarly and insufferable.People Weekly
… he heard the dry, angry, snarly, singsong whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it. Rudyard Kipling