huffily in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for huffily in the English»French Dictionary

huffily [Brit ˈhʌfɪli, Am ˈhəfəli] ADV inf

huffily

d'un air vexé

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English

Many committed audiophiles will tell you huffily that cars present too many acoustical challenges in too small a space to work.

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Gymnasts are always likely to get huffily dismissed as doing floor routine.

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Her staff huffily announced it amounted to the same thing -- a point on which there is still room for disagreement.

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That's distinctly refreshing, in a literary culture that often seems preoccupied with defending itself against looming obsolescence and huffily decrying more fashionable forms.

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Denied the visa, he had said huffily that it was a matter of his "honour and dignity".

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