snatchy

The older cars, with their snatchy throttles, eruptions of turbo boost and catch-me-if-you-can oversteer, constitute a kind of hazing to be endured before one can join the 911 fraternity.

The Porsche 911's Last Hurrah...For Now Dan Neil 2011

While some of the taken-over act with robotic stiffness (I'm looking at you, Adam LeFevre, from RETURN OF THE SEACAUCUS 7), others (metrosexual Jeremy Northam) are so rico suave that they can even drop bad puns while they ply their snatchy stock-in-trade.

This movie isn't that movie! Arbogast 2008

There are some books which by their nature lend themselves to a snatchy method of perusal, and a few minutes may often be well employed in reading an ode of Horace, or the disjointed conversations of Dr. Johnson, but such moments should as a rule be devoted to books which are already more or less familiar.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

By not a single quaver was the cheeriness of his snatchy, racy, merry voice affected.

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg

It didn't add up to make a nice feeling, but a sort of queer one, and if she stood there another minute, staring down into that swirly, snatchy water, she'd fall right over into it ... it seemed to be snatching at _her!

The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

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.

The Thunders of Silence 1910

The angry cry of the dogs comes back in such short, snatchy notes as to tell Uncle Amos what to do.

The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901

His eye beamed an unnatural light -- his breathing was quick and snatchy, as if every inspiration and expiration pained the lungs.

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII Alexander Leighton 1837

Ann Pettway pleaded guilty to snatchy baby Carlina White from Harlem Hospital in 1987.

NYDN Rss ROBERT GEARTY 2012

My tester had the automatic and, while four speeds seem to be enough, the power transfer with this gearbox is kind of snatchy.

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