(1) The administration that sold itself on simple homespun values and manly virtues has been caught in an act of waspish backstabbing to cover its dishonesty.(2) But its contents rapidly dispel any fears that this most entertainingly waspish of commentators succumbed to beatific mildness in his final years.(3) Private thoughts made public reveal a waspish view of the world which readers may find surprising.(4) There is no waspish remark to follow and I am sorry if this outbreak of sincerity causes any distress.(5) That should have ended it, except that certain newspapers have grown irritable and waspish with Tony Blair.(6) Are their early waspish criticisms insincere and their later affirmations the real deal, or are the affirmations the fakery and the waspishness the genuine thing?(7) Her waspish tongue has already landed her in trouble.(8) She brushed off my waspish words, and waved me away.(9) On reflection, however, I feel this would be unlikely, because I cannot be alone in considering his regular waspish observations positive endorsement of a production.(10) His prose was crisp and waspish , but balanced and well informed, and he was able to deliver an authoritative opinion on a wide range of musical events.(11) She knew it was waspish , and ill-spirited and petty, and mean.(12) He is particularly good at the waspish one-line character summary.(13) Mercurial, often waspish and at times given to unwarrantable snobbery, she was free to indulge herself, yet at the same time she was imprisoned by the constraints of the life that gave her all she wanted.(14) He inspected his young visitors with a quizzical, waspish look.(15) Like all diaries, it reflects the mood of the diarist and hence is scrappy, which in turns becomes waspish , gentle, melancholy, flirtatious and always directed by the seasons, scents, gardens and clothes.(16) His humour was waspish and admired even by those who were often the target.
