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  • s  very irritable
    witty and waspish about his colleagues

  • Nehru grew increasingly waspish to reporters and his own subordinates, and could not stand being contradicted.
  • Such waspish criticism is routine for wispy (5 ft.
  • Bing also issued a waspish, pettish statement to the press: "Madame Callas' reputation for projecting her undisputed histrionic talents into her business affairs is a matter of .
Quotes

  • Des Lynam in BBC News
    England produced the three most incisive spells of bowling in the series - Andrew Flintoff's thunder at Lord's, Jimmy Anderson's waspish swingers in Birmingham and Stuart Broad's irresistible intervention at The Oval. Bowlers win matches. Australia... Peter Roebuck http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Roebuck&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGGnq3fJJ1BLO_vjER-BhmjnXnNRA Expressindia.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://cricket.expressindia.com/news/Roebuck-blames-Aussie-selectors-for-Ashes-loss/506882/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFVNsKk2yJfh50W3iej7080yf3FXQ Aug 25, 2009 109039 142936 waspish Des Lynam, who took over presenting the show following the death of Richard Whiteley last year, said: He's a shy, modest, intelligent boy with a waspish sense of humour, and he has become something of a reluctant star."
  • Simon Callow in guardian.co.uk
    He is this rather gossipy, feline kind of figure,says Simon Callow, with whom Ackroyd worked on a stage adaptation of his Dickens biography. "He is a little like Peter Schaffer's notion of Mozart, very sharp and waspish."

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