snarly
1 Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of snarly1
First recorded in 1790–1800; snarl 1 + -y 1
Origin of snarly2
Example Sentences
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Her understated androgyny was paired with a shout-singing vocal style that had a snarly, monotone curl laced with abandon and disregard for convention.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
And Lacey is a snarly mess — because of her failed infertility treatments, because she's lost her sister.
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2023
It looked like a scene from one of the snarly zombie apocalypse series my husband keeps watching — far from the orderly museum visit Clyde is gaslighting his voters with.
From Washington Post • May 17, 2021
Lugosi is lurching and clumsy as the monster, while Chaney is appropriately tortured as Larry but stiff and snarly as the Wolf Man, more man than wolf.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2020
I recognized him, recognized his flattop of blonded hair with the ornamental frontal curl, the snarly lips, the athletic lumber.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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