testyin a sentence
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She gets a little testy when she hasn't had enough sleep.
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And he got testy with her. (source)testy = irritated or annoyed
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Anybody who comes here ends up getting . . . testy. (source)
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"What makes you say that?" said Wood testily.† (source)
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"Ah, Cassie, leave him be," Stacey admonished, frowning and kicking testily at the road.† (source)
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"Your present," he said testily.† (source)
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"It is how they regard themselves as well," she said testily.† (source)
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"Yes, you've already said that," said a testy voice.† (source)
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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.
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"I'm not your countess," Violet said testily, a word which here means "in an extremely annoyed tone."† (source)
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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)
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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)
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"Well, help her," the woman said testily, and the man stood.† (source)
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Otherwise, he gets testy.† (source)
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She often chose this task, in which she found some pleasure, notwithstanding the old man's testiness whenever he demanded her attentions.† (source)
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But there is no animal—" Ralph interrupted him testily.† (source)
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