Huffy in a sentence as an adjective

The risk isn't that someone gets all huffy and makes a big deal about being offended.

>The risk isn't that someone gets all huffy and makes a big deal about being offended.

They did exactly what they always said they would do. Jason is the one who screwed up and then demanded special treatment and then got huffy when they didn't give him special treatment.

It's interesting to see node fans get huffy when Erlang people say, "hey, we're still #1"But for people who already love JS, node is a dream come true.

Getting huffy because someone dares to disagree with your preferences is asinine.

I guess you can make it, but then I reserve the right to make fun of you when you get huffy about the eminent domain claims by states that want more commercial developments.

This HN habit of linking to random pages with an interesting tidbit in paragraph 5, and leaving it to us to figure out why we're supposed to get huffy, is tiresome.

People get ahold of public workers' salaries, see that they're getting a decent wage, and get all huffy that those public workers are personally stealing their hard earned taxpayer money.

How much do you pay them and what did they promise you for your money?I have got used to this great free stuff too, but I don't believe I deserve unlimited free stuff, and I won't get all huffy when they take it away.

> So your differing point of view means it's OK to malign us publicly?You publicly "malign" your competition in a way that several people in this thread feel is nearly libelous, then get huffy when someone calls you on it.

I got an offer last year from a company who offered me a 25% salary cut from my current salary and some negligible equity percentage, and then got all huffy when I tried to negotiate the salary.

So why get huffy about something individuals are choosing to do because they believe it creates a better work environment?Instead, let a thousand flowers bloom and try to figure out if there's anything you can learn from all of them, both the successes and the failures.

If companies wanted employees who will start on the ground floor and work up, they should foster an environment where that can actually happen rather than treating their employees with a cavalier mercenary attitude, and getting huffy when their employee pool reacts in kind.

Replying to myself because I decided I have more to say:Imagine if a coder wrote a big huffy blog post declaring that he was only going to use single-character variables everywhere because it was more "minimalist" than using descriptive variables.

Huffy definitions

adjective

quick to take offense

See also: thin-skinned feisty touchy

adjective

roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"

See also: sore