How To Use Testy In A Sentence
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He's still going strong but he's getting a bit testy in his old age.
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First came a cutting comment, then a testy response, and suddenly it was on: La battle royale.
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I've just figured out why I've been so testy over the last couple of days - reduced coffee intake.
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Only once has he become testy in the manner expected of judges.
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I interviewed him a few years before his death and we exchanged very testy emails.
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But the opener did turn a bit testy in the eighth when Grant Balfour hit J.D. Drew in the right shoulder with a high fastball, prompting a few Red Sox to holler from the bench.
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That led to a testy exchange with MPs this year.
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I interviewed him a few years before his death and we exchanged very testy emails.
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The energy-rich western province has a testy relationship with the federal government.
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These can get a bit testy.
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Delivering on that kind of promise requires a lot of tactfulness, diplomacy, and people skills, which Hutchison appears to lack, based on her testy response.
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As a self-centered dentist who must grapple with the fact that dead people are suddenly asking him favors at every turn, Ricky Gervais is just testy enough to feel make the silly seem authentic — and very, very funny.
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This lead captured the mood of the Democrats' presidential bake-off: testy.
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Relations between the company and the oligarchs were always testy, and periodically they blew up.
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Ever since the move, she had used the excuse that everyone was testy because they were still in transition - still in a period of adjustment.
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This would have settled once and for all the imbalances in the pair's often testy relationship.
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Ben's getting a little testy in his old age.
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I interviewed him a few years before his death and we exchanged very testy emails.
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But she's still only making tentative steps toward commitment with baby-daddy Booth David Boreanaz, who gets pretty testy himself when it comes to details like where exactly they're going to set up a nursery for their bundle of joy: his place, her place, or maybe an "our" place?
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The match ended with the players having to be separated by officials as a testy encounter boiled over, the Spaniard's unhappy at the Indians' use of the word "vamos" Spanish for
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This would have settled once and for all the imbalances in the pair's often testy relationship.
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That led to a testy exchange with MPs this year.
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These can get a bit testy.
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Murikans get testy when we don't annihilate our opponents.
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Ye wad na been sae donsie, O; [would not have, testy]
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With a limited pool of jobs, the program stands to be much more wieldy, but parents stand to get awful testy when they find out there's no room for their kids.
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These can get a bit testy.
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Each visit involved a long wait and at least one unpleasant interaction with a testy employee.
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The strapless corselet sheath gown with my signature décolletéstyling, made of my own Mountain Laurel white silk overlaid with handmade Breton lace that's almost as fine as what Great Aunt Edna used to make?
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In the circumstances he might have been forgiven for being a little testy.
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This means visually aligning the splines on the bottom bracket with the crank isn't an option - making installation testy.
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The energy-rich western province has a testy relationship with the federal government.
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The idea of courtship, of osculatory processes, of marrying and giving in marriage, made this elderly virgin chafe and fume, she never having, at any period of her life, indulged in any such ideas or practices, and being angry against them, as childless wives will sometimes be angry and testy against matrons with their prattle about their nurseries.
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Three minutes left, kiddo ," she said, testy at the associate sitting next to her on the futon.
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Some of the conversations could get a bit testy, especially if they resulted in a letter not being used.
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The energy-rich western province has a testy relationship with the federal government.
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But he got testy whenever reporters got close to what might have been driving the deal.
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He's still going strong but he's getting a bit testy in his old age.
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When pressed by sometimes testy Congressmen about the meagerness of Soviet disclosures, he replied blandly, "We have been very forthcoming."
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Some of the conversations could get a bit testy, especially if they resulted in a letter not being used.
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This explains not only his testy relations with some colleagues, but also his unpopularity with teachers and parents.
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I want to ask you first, Ron, about polls because Roger and Karen get testy with me when I bring up polls.
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This would have settled once and for all the imbalances in the pair's often testy relationship.
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Maybe she's testy because she's not long out of hospital with a viral condition.
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But, it has to be said that the younger web users can, at times, be a little impetuous and testy, too ready to either take offence, offend or flame.
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Yeah well I can get a bit testy myself about being deceived, which is why the rest of this article is such an insult.
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He gate shut a mooar stuff nor ivver he'd getten shut on afooar in a wick, but his purse wor varry little heavier at neet nor it wor i'th 'morning, for as t'mooast ov his customers wor connected wi th' Sunday skoal, an 'they all wanted sarvin' that day, he discovered at Testy worn't likely to prove all profit after all.
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Naturally disliked by the people, they were always asserting their dignity by testy impatient anger.
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During his first year in college, Ma made a futile effort to be sociable but ended up becoming more testy, frequently quarrelling with his classmates.
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We are dealing with customers all the time and the last thing we need is our workers feeling hungry and testy.
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He seems impatient with you, almost testy to the point of animosity.
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Sure, people can get testy at times; but serious issues should be debated with passion and vigor.
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That led to a testy exchange with MPs this year.
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Only once has he become testy in the manner expected of judges.
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Ben's getting a little testy in his old age.
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No wonder these people are feeling testy.
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I don't blame Rosenthal for being a bit testy after my cheekiness.
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It is an essential accessory for any testy superpower rivalry.
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He cowld nat denay but that they were sette there nat longe agoo, and also the mater dyd playnly testyfye ye same.
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The minute he is questioned, he becomes testy and defensive.
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There was an air of gravity and importance about the garb of this person, and something indescribably odd, I might say awful, in the perfect, stone-like movelessness of the figure, that effectually checked the testy comment which had at once risen to the lips of the irritated artist.
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I get testy when people put whole books or short stories or poems up on their website, without permission, especially when they know it's wrong.
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And it's only one example of recent hidden risks that are increasingly bubbling into corporate bottom lines and making shareholders testy about companies 'untracked social and environmental challenges.
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Some of the conversations could get a bit testy, especially if they resulted in a letter not being used.
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She asked me to pass on her apologies for being testy in comments threads, which I'm sure are wholly unnecessary in any case.
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But the cranes make war with them continually, against which they do most courageously defend themselves; for these little ends of men and dandiprats (whom in Scotland they call whiphandles and knots of a tar-barrel) are commonly very testy and choleric.
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From out of nowhere, your boy can snap from cool and calm to angry and testy!
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Naturally disliked by the people, they were always asserting their dignity by testy impatient anger.
Scottish Voices 1745-1960
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He's still going strong but he's getting a bit testy in his old age.
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Years later, the sacking still makes the normally placid Burt uncharacteristically testy, but he doesn't dwell on it.
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This explains not only his testy relations with some colleagues, but also his unpopularity with teachers and parents.
Times, Sunday Times
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He seems impatient with you, almost testy to the point of animosity.
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This explains not only his testy relations with some colleagues, but also his unpopularity with teachers and parents.
Times, Sunday Times
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This incident has been all over the media, who have variously called Obama "snippy" (FOX) and "testy" (CBS).
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Several campers are surprisingly rude and testy when you attempt to engage them in conversation.
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Only once has he become testy in the manner expected of judges.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the opener did turn a bit testy in the eighth inning when Grant Balfour hit J.D. Drew in the right shoulder with a high fastball, prompting a few Red Sox to holler from the bench.
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The energy-rich western province has a testy relationship with the federal government.
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My escorts exited the bus and a testy female officer instructed them to walk through a metal detector.
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But in a testy exchange, Mr. Clarke said the Conservatives would seek to avert or mitigate the government's proposed rise in national insurance, outlined in the prebudget report.
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While their romance does have more moments of realism than the cutesy couplings of, say, It's Complicated, Karen's transformation from testy to kindly is hard to believe as other characters evolve more realistically.
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One could see Martin getting testy, but he had no choice but to answer the questions, which were good questions.
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They might have been better off calling the RAF - witness this remarkable photograph also courtesty of FW of an RAF Chinook lifting a pea viner out of the mire.
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Football also makes people cross enough to become frantically upset about Neil Lennon, a man who, in normal life, might be the kind of slightly testy neighbour who occasionally leaves a note on your windscreen about wheelie bin maintenance, but who, in football, is deemed a bristly ginger hard-nut super villain.
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Naturally disliked by the people, they were always asserting their dignity by testy impatient anger.
Scottish Voices 1745-1960
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The tired theatrics of Super Bowl week have begun and players on both teams are getting a little testy.