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• r  in an ill-natured and snappish manner
  `Don't talk to me now,' she said snappishly

• A persistent reporter who hoped to follow Goldwater into the woods was advised snappishly: "The only way you'll get in is disguised as Herbert Hoover.
• Asked about the announcement that former Secretary of the Treasury John Connally had formed a Democrats for Nixon organization, McGovern said snappishly: "Does it really .
• She had no sooner taken her seat than a board member snappishly ordered her to leave the room.

Quotes

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• Bob Carr in The Age
  To hound and harass a public servant who steps marginally out of line venturing one view is not a very mature way to approach this,Mr Carr said. "To have the prime minister nastily and snappishly attack him is the wrong way to approach it.