huffily


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huff·y

 (hŭf′ē)
adj. huff·i·er, huff·i·est
1. Easily offended; touchy.
2. Irritated or annoyed; indignant.
3. Arrogant; haughty.

huff′i·ly adv.
huff′i·ness n.
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Adv.1.huffily - in a huffy manner; "`Don't bother to call me back,' he said huffily"
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Translations
بتَجَهُّـم، بِغَضَب سَريع
mrzutě
mopset
fÿlulega
alınganlıklagücenerek

huffily

[ˈhʌfɪlɪ] ADVmalhumoradamente
he said huffilydijo malhumorado
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

huffily

[ˈhʌfɪli] adv [say] → avec mauvaise humeur
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

huffily

advbeleidigt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

huffily

[ˈhʌfɪlɪ] adv (fam) → con aria imbronciata
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

huff

(haf) : in(to) a huff
being or becoming silent because one is angry, displeased etc. He is in a huff; He went into a huff.
ˈhuffy adjective
1. in a huff.
2. easily offended, and likely to go into a huff.
ˈhuffily adverb
ˈhuffiness noun
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She did not like being reproached, and, retiring huffily into a haughty silence, she sat by listlessly while Philip made the preparations for their departure.
"I could not, of course, find out so much about it, for I am a stranger in Petersburg myself," Pyotr Petrovitch replied huffily. "However, the two rooms are exceedingly clean, and as it is for so short a time .
"They are letting kids into these wild spots late into the night," I told my wife huffily. Why I was miffed is because elderly people on the other hand are always looked upon as an after-thought in our society.
The two have traded insults in the build-up to the fight, with Nurmagomedov huffily walking out of the final press conference on Thursday when McGregor failed to turn up on time.
Human nature dictates that people must always create a hierarchy, that something has to be 'the best', and it's been decided (without my participation, I might huffily add) that the best chicken salad in the world is served at the famous Zuni Cafe on Market Street in San Francisco.
The work was dedicated to the loving memory of his late mother, who, no doubt, grumbled huffily from her grave that "Gwiiiin, you are awasting your atime with this aaaaarrrt raaabish" whilst Gwyn's cone happily gave her the finger.
He capitulated completely in the tie-break, allowing Murray to rattle off the first six points before huffily lumping a forehand long over the baseline.
Critics complain huffily that it doesn't have the strongest plot, and some of the acting is overblown, but in terms of where it counts, it has been a hit, putting bottoms on theatre seats.
In both cases, the plagiarists insisted (huffily) that they had never even seen my work (sort of like the Trump campaign originally denying that any part of Melania's speech was derived from Michelle Obama's).
"Uff, forget that," I said huffily, "everyone has one, or two, or three.
Some huffily told us to hang up our prognosticating cap, because we didn't get the winning AlDub song on Eat Bulaga right.