testiness

NOUN
  1. feeling easily irritated
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How To Use testiness In A Sentence

  • Yet there is almost a winsomeness in that testiness.
  • A hot bath and good dinner had helped, but her testiness with Jonas was a clear sign she was on edge due to fatigue.
  • Dougal underwent another and very close examination, in which he steadfastly asserted the truth of what he had before affirmed; and being rebuked on account of the suspicious and dangerous appearance of the route by which he was guiding them, he answered with a sort of testiness that seemed very natural, “Her nainsell didna mak ta road; an shentlemans likit grand roads, she suld hae pided at Glasco.” Rob Roy
  • The mild suggestion of boredom he affects can't disguise a hint of testiness.
  • One final note: my sincerest apologies to anybody I have offended or hurt with my testiness in the past couple of days.
  • Here Jim is warming up to that state of testiness he can be known for, though I'm unclear who he's directing his scorn at.
  • Baby's disposition or the behavior may have the change, if the fall in the blues, is despondent and is restless, some are agitated testiness .
  • The mild suggestion of boredom he affects can't disguise a hint of testiness.
  • Testiness mixes with vanity when he reminds Ariel that it was ‘mine art ‘that released him from the cloven pine.’
  • ‘No, I'm not tied up with Eliza,’ he answered, working to keep the testiness from his voice.
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