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Meanings of testy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "irritable"
Examples for "irritable"
1
The point is, that on this particular day the lieutenant was irritable.
2
Nivea's balm will soothe irritable skin and prevent future flare-ups from occurring.
3
But I was in a state of mind bordering on the irritable.
4
In his perplexity and sorrow, the poor colonel was irritable and unjust.
5
Her father is crippled and querulous; indeed he is often exceedingly irritable.
1
Emphasising the feel good factor in Julian's petulant possessiveness is surely misguided.
2
Yvonne felt petulant toward these people she had liked only minutes before.
3
Lem knew he sounded petulant, but he also knew he was right.
4
Corona was silent; it was her only weapon when he became petulant.
5
No longer petulant or impatient, he appeared sunk in the deepest despondency.
1
His methods, once dismissed as cranky and left-field are now accepted practice.
2
Though there could be a million explanations, that, too, made me cranky.
3
She's getting used to the gravity, but the drugs make her cranky.
4
He's cranky as a bear with toothache when we're still setting up.
5
I was cranky thinking about what I was about to see, Lego.
1
So were the lieutenant and the peevish damsels in his Battleston car.
2
I am growing peevish-andtired; and will leave off writing for to-day.
3
We sat in the smoking-car, Hawkins by this time ill and peevish.
4
He that refused a pipe in company was accounted peevish and unsociable.
5
Walking towards the door, Alfred poured forth a torrent of peevish abuse:
1
Such talk usually generates fractious debate between privacy hawks and security hounds.
2
It's a kind of utopian oasis in the fractious post-civil war days.
3
The public mood is now more fractious and hostile to established politics.
4
The fractious atmosphere of British society is always lurking in the background.
5
The incident adds another complication to fractious ties between the two countries.
1
Partial sightings, fragmentary reports, scratchy CCTV images... What are you doing here?'
2
I remember the little scratchy blot from the pen on the envelope.
3
Though the voice was thin and scratchy, the words were clearly audible.
4
I feel that when I do that myself I get really scratchy.
5
But a hot, scratchy rope knotted around her heart, pulling her forward.
1
It has been an inevitably tetchy beginning to the new Dáil term.
2
On the Monday night he was a bit tetchy, a bit tired.
3
The tetchy Brit thawed out after a couple of bottles of wine.
4
A few tetchy exchanges between US and Colombian players in the aftermath.
5
Richard Eyre, a nice guy, confined himself to the odd tetchy postcard.
1
Consider the pettish, they are angry with their best and dearest friends.
2
He turned on Sam with the pettish anger of the mild man.
3
Frank thrust out one hand and gave the animal a pettish push.
4
He was a bit pettish when he snapped his check book shut.
5
And he added with pettish emphasis, They're all alike, gentle and simple.
1
There's also a Continental food and craft market if you get peckish.
2
A peckish Saturn fresh run out of young, the town devours itself.
3
A fear rises up within him: he is starting to feel peckish.
4
Having survived your morning bath, you may be feeling a little peckish.
5
And with someone who closed their eyes and someone who was peckish.
1
You are the third techy audience that I have given this to.
2
BP Valenzuela's sweet-voiced and loopy, techy pop music is far from basic.
3
Climb thin cracks and a techy face, with stunning views of Mt.
4
So it's just a techy way of lighting the menu of our game.
5
Among the techy outfitting was a defibrillator and cooler-chest for donor organ transport.
1
Drummer had started crying, a nettlesome sound, and he wouldn't be pacified.
2
The most nettlesome issues for industry are security and accounting.
3
The timing involved in selling it, though, can be nettlesome.
4
A former senior executive at one of the two companies also found the regulations nettlesome.
5
This leads us to the nettlesome subject of authenticity.
Usage of testy in English
1
The General began to turn a little testy as the constable finished.
2
She wasn't quite sure why she had been so testy with him.
3
Mr. Merrick left the office in a rather humbled and testy mood.
4
The fact that Tobe obviously recognized them only made him more testy.
5
There was real feeling in the testy old lady's face and voice.
6
The testy lead has added a big deposit to my Fear Reservoir.
7
Cosby arrived; a testy, disagreeable man who loved money above everything else.
8
She could not believe Milly meant to take her testy remark seriously.
9
Her father was a testy old country gentleman, very irritable and obstinate.
10
At first the man was testy, he did not seem to understand.
11
The somewhat testy answer is: we write for whoever will read our work.
12
Tax and jobs spark testy exchanges in the latest leaders' debate.
13
His agency's relations with Iran have become testy in recent months.
14
So why was I feeling so testy with him these days?
15
Yet the Fed's relationship with Congress has only grown more testy.
16
A run-in with a testy prosecutor concerning my report on his homicide victim.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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