Snappish

A snappish cur

She came to us snappish and suspicious, but when she found what sort of place ours was, it all went off by degrees; […]

The past fortnight had been one of sullenness, cold black looks, short snappish words, and those ingenious contradictions which sometimes vary the halcyon calm of domestic felicity.

She heard her own voice, snappish and rude, and pressed a hand to her head.

Even though the woman didn't work closely with Barsade, so palpable was her complaining and snappish temperament that it had infected everyone who worked around her.

There was something underneath her snappish belligerence that made him feel protective and tolerant.