Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Growling; grumbling angrily; peevish; waspish; snappish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • a. & n. from snarl, v.
  • a tool with a long beak, used in the process of snarling. When one end is held in a vise, and the shank is struck with a hammer, the repercussion of the other end, or beak, within the article worked upon gives the requisite blow for producing raised work. See 1st Snarl.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective growling, having a snarl.
  • noun growling, having a snarl.
  • verb Present participle of snarl.

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Examples

  • Never, ever, say anything positive while Obama is in office — but continue with your sniping and snarling from the sidelines, offering nothing of your own – anything else would be a betrayal of your motto of party over people.

    Think Progress » Republicans try to claim that March’s job growth was ‘mostly’ from the Census. 2010

  • For him to resent such reproof was equally unexpected to her, and she sprang upon him in snarling indignation.

    The Battle of the Fangs 2010

  • For him to resent such reproof was equally unexpected to her, and she sprang upon him in snarling indignation.

    The Battle of the Fangs 1906

  • He was in a particularly vicious mood, and he kept the lions stirred up till they were all snarling, that is, all of them except old

    The Leopard Man's Story 2010

  • He was in a particularly vicious mood, and he kept the lions stirred up till they were all snarling, that is, all of them except old

    The Leopard Man's Story 1906

  • Each would climb to the top and defy the other to pull him down, till a hold was secured and they rolled together to the level, clutching and tugging, Harry giggling, the Badger uttering a peculiar high-pitched sound that might have been called snarling had it not been an expression of good nature.

    Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • California's voters responded with what can best be described as snarling apathy.

    The New Republic - All Feed Ed Kilgore 2010

  • Our brains are exquisitely attuned to pinpoint and instantly react to a fixed range of dangers, such as snarling animals.

    Truth and Consequences 2009

  • I like the 'snarling' glam photo of Esther Zidel herself.

    Off Blog, But Not Off Topic Jacqueline T Lynch 2009

  • The creek, which formerly had sunk at the edge of the beach in a long pool, and left the sloping sand all free and beautiful, had now broken through, levelled the sand, and swept in a kind of snarling river to the snarling waves; across the cut – out sand.

    Kangaroo 2004

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