testy
adjective, tes·ti·er, tes·ti·est.
Origin of testy
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Related Words for testy
sullen, cantankerous, cranky, edgy, impatient, uptight, quarrelsome, grumpy, annoyed, exasperated, bad-tempered, captious, choleric, cross, crotchety, fretful, grouchy, irascible, mean, orneryExamples from the Web for testy
Contemporary Examples of testy
The Anglo-American “conversations” about the timing of the second front often grew heated and testy.
I've never seen a government official get quite this testy with a reporter.
There is a relationship that develops, tense and often testy, between a journalist and his quarry.
Meanawhile, there are headlines about Obama getting “testy” with reporter Brad Watson of WFAA in Dallas.
Given her testy relations with management, it would be easy to label Simpson a troublemaker.
Historical Examples of testy
"That's all right, that's all right," was the testy rejoinder.
Fair HarborJoseph Crosby Lincoln
This, reader, is the abode of the testy but extremely dignified Mrs. Swiggs.
An OutcastF. Colburn Adams
He didn't know it, but she was trying to say she was sorry she had been impatient and testy.
Sunny Boy in the Big CityRamy Allison White
She was testy too; but this was owing to the neglect she experienced at the hands of her tribe.
UngavaR.M. Ballantyne
He was a testy man, and struck the stone an impatient blow with his staff.
Richard Carvel, CompleteWinston Churchill