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 asnarl . - noun
growling , having asnarl . - verb Present participle of
snarl .
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Examples
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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
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For him to resent such reproof was equally unexpected to her, and she sprang upon him in snarling indignation.
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For him to resent such reproof was equally unexpected to her, and she sprang upon him in snarling indignation.
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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
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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
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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
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California's voters responded with what can best be described as snarling apathy.
The New Republic - All Feed Ed Kilgore 2010
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Our brains are exquisitely attuned to pinpoint and instantly react to a fixed range of dangers, such as snarling animals.
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I like the 'snarling' glam photo of Esther Zidel herself.
Off Blog, But Not Off Topic Jacqueline T Lynch 2009
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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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