snarler

Example Sentences

• ""Yeah," snarled the other guy, "well, why don't you write this down: You can't bet more than that $100 chip from now on. You can only play one hand and" — he turned to the dealer — "shuffle up on every couple of rounds, you hear me?" […] "You don't mind if I play craps?" I asked them as I parted. "I'm not going to be hassled at craps, am I?" "Play craps all you want," said the snarler, triumphant in his knowledge that no one could beat craps."
• "Tecla was neither a snarler nor a crab, but a good simple lady; yet she was a beata — one of the most temperate species."
• "The domestic snarler is felt to be a curse and an ignoble varlet, since for small reasons, or no reasons, he will disturb domestic peace and engender discomfort."
• "[…] ; his acquaintance with Wordsworth, whose Midas-ears he really persuaded himself to admire ; his intercourse with Godwin ; and his close alliance with that perverse and wrong-headed but brilliant snarler, Hazlitt."
• "But Ned had a great opinion of Mrs. Badgery's capabilities, and though forced to admit that her unbending manner and her ability to make good use of her tongue when occasion demanded it, justified the appellation of a snarler, […]"
• "I was a snarler. I prided myself on being a snarler. I would go to great lengths to avoid stereotypical feminine behaviour. I thought that in being outrageous or out of control, which I viewed as synonymous, I was thumbing my nose at the patriarchy. My biggest fear about AA was that I would lose my edge. Turn into blancmange."