(a.) Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.
(a.) Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
(2) It was Capote, not Vidal, who came up with the most waspish dismissal of Kerouac's work: "That's not writing, that's typing."
(3) His blog continued targeting senior Labour figures, and its waspish attacks got under Labour's skin.
(4) The result was a magnificently layered performance, in which Capote's waspish armour of wit came down to reveal an empathetic, vulnerable soul.
(5) In person, Wei is straight-laced and intellectually waspish.
(6) He conflates the scourge of drugs with everything from lottery winners to Oxbridge graduates who haven't heard of Mr Micawber , and has a hilarious gift for the waspish afterthought, as in: "Teachers are no longer really teachers.
(7) This three-parter scrubs up what co-star Mark Gatiss calls Benson’s “sly, funny and waspishly brilliant stories”.
(8) The French adoration of comic Jerry Lewis is a legendary, and the country at last got its wish: Lewis has a film at the Cannes film festival for the first time since 1989, and the 87-year-old duly turned up to receive the plaudits, waspishly shouting "[The French] kept me alive for 50 years!"
(9) Jane Austen has been confirmed as the next face of the £10 note – but for the quote that will feature on the reverse, the Bank of England is steering clear of her many waspish observations on the subject of money in favour of a line from Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(10) At the Court, a Beckett diktat sat over his desk: “A theatre stage should have the maximum of verbal presence and the maximum of corporal presence.” To the end of his career, Gaskill was waspish and uncompromising; Callow pictures him as “a slightly frosty Socrates”, relentlessly asking “Why?” Gaskill is survived by a sister, Ruth, two nephews, Nicholas and Martin, and a niece, Gay.
(11) From Kenneth Williams to Tom Allen, there has always been a market for effeminate stylings allied to a waspish, holier-than-thou gentility.
(12) Pick up Jane Austen and everyone becomes a good target for a certain kind of waspish satire.
(13) Ed Howker and Shiv Malik stake out their complaint with a waspishness which comes from personal experience – the struggle to find somewhere to live in London, and to find a secure job.
(14) Gray's Butley is a waspish, self-destructive minor academic living in a permanent state of arrested adolescence.
(15) Photograph: PA Twitter Gary has 2.37 million followers, and it is here that Lineker's more waspish side is allowed out.
(16) Keith Waterhouse , Fleet Street columnist, wit, novelist, playwright and waspish social commentator who once described himself as "a tinroof tabernacle radical", has died at his home in London, aged 80, his family said .
(17) In a slot opposite the editorial often used for his waspish profiles, Christopher Stevens blasts the book for covering the star’s cocaine use – yet takes great pains to describe his behaviour in detail.
(18) Wenger was angry about the result and he was waspish when questioned about the decision to push Sánchez through the game.
(19) Waspishly, Briffa does also suggest however that another climate scientist, Kevin Trenberth, is "extremely defensive and combative when ever criticized about anything because he figures that he is smarter than everyone else and virtually infallible."
(20) Gaskell waspishly described her first sight of Charlotte in a letter: "She is underdeveloped, thin and more than half a head shorter than I ... [with] a reddish face, large mouth and many teeth gone; altogether plain."