Sample Sentences for
testy
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    It came out a little hot, a little testy.†  (source)
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    The testy voice seemed to come from a clump of ferns.†  (source)
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    "You're a hard one to please," Jake said, getting a little testy suddenly.†  (source)
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    "What makes you say that?" said Wood testily.†  (source)
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    "Yes, you've already said that," said a testy voice.†  (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)
    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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    "Ah, Cassie, leave him be," Stacey admonished, frowning and kicking testily at the road.†  (source)
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    No need to get 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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    "Mister Wolcott likes and respects you," I said testily.†  (source)
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    Grandmother was testy about our playing at 80 Front Street; it's no wonder that Owen and I sought the solitude of Waterhouse Hall.†  (source)
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    "No," said Phillotson, with sudden testiness.†  (source)
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    "It's not complicated," she says testily when I ask for directions.†  (source)
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