| Nevertheless, you don't hear jokes about equine looks, nor waspishly disparaging put-downs as often as you used to. |
| Gossipy extracts from his writings were compiled into a witty script by Derek Acock, and read colourfully and waspishly by CBSO chief executive Stephen Maddock. |
| After all, as someone on the staff once waspishly noted, if the Royal only concerned itself with works of the past, it would be merely a rather expensive museum. |
| After one particularly bland interview, a reporter waspishly criticized the starlet. |
| It was even noted waspishly that he was very spare in his personal habits, not very convivial and never smoked tobacco or drank. |
| For France and Germany Andy Capp is the Britain they can happily sneer at, just as British cartoonists waspishly portray the French as frog-eating wimps and the Germans as humourless automatons. |
