extremely waspish, she uses her wit viciously when irritated
Recent Examples on the WebAmong the waspish regulars of the Algonquin Round Table, Robert Benchley cut a relatively docile figure.New York Times, 11 May 2022 At his waspish best, Mr. Wheatcroft is entertaining on all this. Richard Aldous, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021 The waspish Queen – played by Rebecca Trehearn, whose deliciously withering grandeur would give Marie Antoinette pause — is not, to put it mildly, pleased. David Benedict, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021 The author takes a waspish tone that doesn’t always enhance his arguments, but the book is an excellent distillation of a complicated menace. Barton Swaim, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021 The portrait of prewar upper-class English life is superb, the characters are vividly drawn and the comedy, as always in Waugh, is by turns waspish, warm and knockabout. John Banville, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020 Once again, waspish commentators noted, an American woman has caused a ruction in the royal family.Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020 Bening is capable of being waspish, consoling, frail, indomitable, and woebegone – sometimes all at once. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2018 Olney was known to be quite difficult and often waspish about his colleagues. Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2017 See More