Synonym: feisty, mad, sore, thin-skinned, touchy. Similar words: puffy, fluffy, stuffy, in a huff, shuffle, huffing, scruffy, shuffling. Meaning: adj. 1. quick to take offense 2. roused to anger.
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1 I, in my turn, became embarrassed and huffy and told her to take the money back.
2 She gets all huffy if you mention his name.
3 Some customers get huffy when you ask them for their ID.
4 As you would imagine, he was rather huffy!
5 I was surprised by how huffy he was.
6 He became huffy, then nervous.
7 They couldn't answer and became huffy that we weren't satisfied with the good treatment we were receiving.
8 The flouncy fish gets particularly huffy about serrated edges, which tear rather than slice through its delicate flesh.
9 He could get quite huffy at all her complicated ways.
10 She stayed huffy a good while.
11 Republicans get huffy when you call their plan a voucher scheme,[www.Sentencedict.com] but that's exactly what it is.
12 Can't you see how huffy he got when the same thing happened last time?
13 Stereotyped as huffy and inhospitable, the Shanghainese are downplaying these complaints on the one hand, and making subtle overtures on the other.
14 You're huffy at being put on duty, but what is it for you to apologise to an old and honourable officer!
15 I told her she'd made a mistake and she got huffy with me.
16 I told them the Dispatch was doing a feature on the hanging debate; unfortunately that made them even more huffy.
17 Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was unpopular with voters but T-shirts printed with his huffy parting shot are now a hit.
18 Thats a damn nice bike boy! is that a huffy?
19 He did not seem seriously angry. He only acted as if he were huffy.
20 He is not an easy going person. He always gets huffy with others.
21 Earlier this month when the situation was reversed, however, America got all huffy when China confronted the USNS Impeccable, a surveillance vessel, 75 miles from China's naval base at Hainan Island.
22 Mike: Hey, I'm not getting stuck with Ben again. I mean when he doesn't know the answer he gets huffy .
23 How dare you do such thing? Can't you see how huffy he got when the same thing happened last time?
24 While I might not have been as full-tilt as the lady who yelled at the airline personnel, there was a time in my life not long ago when I would have been, well, huffy.
25 Only when the mobs make the mistake of dumping it off their own coasts does the state start to get huffy.