snatchy
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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
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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
Some pity mingled with his vexation at Mr. Travers' snatchy wakefulness.
From The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows by Conrad, Joseph
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