Meanings of more testy in English

The fact that Tobe obviously recognized them only made him more testy.

Yet the Fed's relationship with Congress has only grown more testy.

As Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush get more testy, Donald Trump gets more chesty.

The doctor grew more testy with his overworked years.

His answers would have grown shorter and more testy.

Three more testy pitches regained the Salathé, and then three easier pitches led to the top.

I tried to sound reasonable, though I was afraid I was coming across more testy and frightened.

Maurice Oakley was perhaps a shade more distrustful of his servants, and consequently more testy with them.

It only grew more testy from there.

This makes me more testy and even more determined to see anything to do with the Yangtze Area in Rapid Development.

The Judge was a little bit gloomy for a day or two after, and more testy with every one than usual.

He looked at home on this stage, and was not intimidated by Mexican provocations during the more testy periods of the game.

Though naturally rough, and rendered still more testy by the interruption of his sleep, the burgomaster was not quite deficient in sense of feeling.

"A humbug, again!" cried the old gentleman, growing more and more testy at these glimpses of Clifford's metaphysics.