snatchy
Americanadjective
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It's tough to hit a good drive after making a snatchy move like that.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 12, 2018
I realised my swing was getting quick and snatchy.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2012
The numerous scenes pitch through so many scattered periods of Clyde Griffiths' life that one is given the impression of snatchy revelations, skipped pages.
From Time Magazine Archive
Guttural sounds of cheering in snatchy fragments were mingled with terms of approval and of endearment and of affection uttered in English, in German, in Russian, in Yiddish and in Finnish.
From The Thunders of Silence by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
By not a single quaver was the cheeriness of his snatchy, racy, merry voice affected.
From Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life by Beard, Harry
It gets snatchier, he’s not as smooth on the throttle or brakes.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2010
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