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Definition of Snappiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snappiness
Literary usage of Snappiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"On the stump, in a hot campaign, it is not the elegance of an anecdote that tells
so much as its pointedness, snappiness, above all, its applicability. ..."
2. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"On the stump, in a hot campaign, it is not the elegance of an anecdote that tells
so much as its pointedness, snappiness, above all, its applicability. ..."
3. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"When feeding, this snake displays a ferocity and snappiness of motion quite
contrary to its generally sluggish disposition. If the prey be a snake, ..."
4. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures: A Handbook for by Henry Rankin Poore (1903)
"... intensifies the light, not only by contrast of measure, but in showing the
high key of the light measures. Accents of dark produce such snappiness ..."
5. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures: A Handbook for by Henry Rankin Poore (1903)
"Accents of dark produce such snappiness as is commended by the publisher who
esteems the brilliancy which a rapid interchange of lights and ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1888)
"... tendency to snappiness. But she was prevailed on soon to " pick a bit," and
beginning to revive after a little desultory conversation about her most ..."
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