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  • Look up WASP or wasp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A wasp is a type of flying insect. Wasp may also refer to: Several Marvel characters, including:...
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    reputation for having inherited her father's famously sharp tongue and waspish wit". Of her early public role, she has said: "It's not just about 'can...
    107 KB (8,163 words) - 19:41, 29 May 2024
  • Financial Times, Sarah Hemming states "It’s obliquely timely, then, often waspishly funny, ultimately very moving and beautifully delivered by the superb...
    3 KB (235 words) - 18:06, 8 June 2024
  •  1960 (1960-10-21) Tod and Buz arrive in New Orleans where they encounter a waspish woman (Betty Field), a band of smugglers and a parrot-fever epidemic. 4...
    44 KB (79 words) - 00:54, 25 May 2024
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    day forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, When you are waspish. The spleen, as a byword for melancholy, has also been considered an actual...
    37 KB (4,025 words) - 21:15, 18 May 2024
  • Huffington Post referred to Long's review as "not a review ... [but] a waspish response to other reviews." Richard Brody of The New Yorker included Moonlight...
    78 KB (7,830 words) - 02:04, 24 May 2024
  • miscellaneous paragraphs under a symbolic drawing of 'Granny Herald' whose waspish features bore a resemblance to his own. He retired in February 1961. Ramsey...
    47 KB (4,081 words) - 11:05, 1 June 2024
  • resentful, choleric, jealous, peevish, sullen, endless wrangles, whiny, waspish, snappish. Insular paranoid (including avoidant features) Reclusive, self-sequestered...
    22 KB (2,220 words) - 18:47, 1 June 2024
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    was still legally married to Valentine Castlerosse at the time, the most waspish gossip columnist of the 1930s and the very last person an adulterer would...
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  • staff, even, Lord Grade noted sadly, his tea lady. Later, he observed waspishly, "Robert died quite a young man, for all his millions". Hoge, Warren (14...
    31 KB (3,228 words) - 01:27, 24 April 2024
  • for harp strings and a chorus of robins. A fight breaks out between a waspish-looking hollow tree and a younger, healthier tree for the attention of...
    8 KB (691 words) - 19:27, 28 May 2024
  • characters feature the prim and prudish Dolly Bellfield (Thelma Barlow) and her waspish friend Jean (Anne Reid), and the younger and snarky Twinkle (Maxine Peake)...
    34 KB (3,735 words) - 16:14, 11 April 2024
  • staff, even, Lord Grade noted sadly, his tea lady. Later, he observed waspishly, "Robert died quite a young man, for all his millions." "Michael Jackson's...
    24 KB (2,738 words) - 00:01, 23 February 2024
  • he regularly wrote to various newspapers, particularly The Irish Times, waspish letters targeting various well-known figures and writers; mischievously...
    64 KB (7,271 words) - 11:15, 7 June 2024
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    Morgan ultimately converts to Christianity. She is portrayed as wise and waspish, and once referred to by the narrator Derfel as the most poorly tempered...
    212 KB (6,638 words) - 17:07, 3 June 2024
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    Almanac of British Politics described him as an "articulate, abrasive and waspish Commons performer" who Tony Blair had labelled as "nasty and ineffectual...
    104 KB (8,620 words) - 07:06, 6 June 2024
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    make the best of unhappy marriages. They also reluctantly take on the waspish, elderly Mrs. Fisher and the stunning but aloof Lady Caroline Dester to...
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  • Thumbnail for List of poems by Robert Frost
    "The Wrights' Biplane" "Assertive" "Evil Tendencies Cancel" "Pertinax" "Waspish" "One Guess" "The Hardship of Accounting" "Not All There" "In Divés' Dive"...
    8 KB (962 words) - 05:15, 2 April 2024
  • good reviews at the time, with Films and Filming calling him an "impish, waspish, Wilde-ian Holmes", while the New York Herald Tribune stated "Peter Cushing...
    16 KB (1,967 words) - 01:55, 31 May 2024
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    the normal attire for polo players. As he desired to exude a certain "WASPishness" in his clothes, initially adopting the style of clothiers like Brooks...
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