[f. next.] The state or condition of being snippety; scrappiness.
1878. Spectator, 16 Feb., 220/2. The defect of Fraser’s Magazine among magazines is snippetiness, a habit of publishing so many articles that they are none of them exhaustive, and many of them comparatively poor.
1890. Athenæum, 7 June, 730/1. A certain snippetiness of style and arrangement, which is too suggestive of paste and scissors.
