All 3 Uses of
testy
in
Babbitt
- He finished his shaving in a growing testiness increased by his spinning headache and by the emptiness in his stomach.†
Chpt 1 *
- Of these men one resembled a testy and prosperous grocer, one a Yankee carpenter, one a soda-clerk, and one a Russian Jewish actor The Russian Jew quoted Kautsky, Gene Debs, and Abraham Lincoln.†
Chpt 7
- Most of the castles of the testy Victorian tetrarchs are gone now or decayed into boarding-houses, but the Eathorne Mansion remains virtuous and aloof, reminiscent of London, Back Bay, Rittenhouse Square.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(testy) easily irritated or annoyed