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• s  apt to speak irritably
  a snappish tone of voice

• She finds herself angry and snappish when callers make poor use of her endless availability.
• Of them all Hayes included only Fisher's character has real spunk, although Kevin Kline (unbilled but not uncredited) contributes some snappish cynicism as a priapic .
• Instead of confronting yesterday's quiche, she finds herself face to face with the hound of hell, all red-eyed and snappish, with a dreamscape hinting of unspeakable mysteries .

• snappy

Quotes

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• Gretchen Rubin in Bloomberg
  I thought about what it would take to be less snappish and more lighthearted,said Rubin, who lives in Manhattan with her two daughters and husband, Jamie, a senior partner at the private-equity firm BC Partners.
• Mel Gussow in guardian.co.uk
  Gussow writes that friends recognised Albee and Flanagan's alcohol-fuelled relationship in the "brilliant, snappish dialogue, the matching of insult and retort ...... [they] were legendary for their wit and also their malice".