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testy
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  • "What makes you say that?" said Wood testily.†  (source)
  • "Ah, Cassie, leave him be," Stacey admonished, frowning and kicking testily at the road.†  (source)
  • "Your present," he said testily.†  (source)
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  • "It is how they regard themselves as well," she said testily.†  (source)
  • "Yes, you've already said that," said a testy voice.†  (source)
  • What the dickens does the fellow expect?" and the old gentleman looked a trifle ashamed of his own testiness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • "I'm not your countess," Violet said testily, a word which here means "in an extremely annoyed tone."†  (source)
  • Takumi and I laughed, and then Takumi said, "Yeah, Pudge and I were getting a little testy, but man, ever since we showered together, Pudge, I feel really close to you."†  (source)
  • The indigestion seemed betokened in an occasional nervous testiness and grinning irritability, causing the teeth to audibly grind together over mistakes committed in copying; unnecessary maledictions, hissed, rather than spoken, in the heat of business; and especially by a continual discontent with the height of the table where he worked.†  (source)
  • "Well, help her," the woman said testily, and the man stood.†  (source)
  • Otherwise, he gets testy.†  (source)
  • She often chose this task, in which she found some pleasure, notwithstanding the old man's testiness whenever he demanded her attentions.†  (source)
  • But there is no animal—" Ralph interrupted him testily.†  (source)
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