snatchy

comparative snatchier · superlative snatchiest

1. In snatches or glimpses.

   In positioning the branches, remember that the foliage should be arranged to give snatchy views of the two trunks all the way to the top.

   1990, Kan Yashiroda, Bonsai: Special Techniques, page 18

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   We listen to a snatchy talk on one thing and then another, and abstruse questions that are like the Scotchman's definition of metaphysics.

   1902, Amanda Minnie Douglas, A Sherburne quest, page 332

   The long-desired vision came first to Peter in Galilee in the morning twilight, and something of the kind perhaps happened to others; but of all this we have only garbled and snatchy reports.

   1922, G. Stanley Hall, Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology

2. Resembling or characteristic of a snatching or grabbing.

   a snatchy gesture