testily
IPA: tˈɛstʌɫi
adverb
- In a testy way; in the manner of someone who is testy.
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Examples of "testily" in Sentences
- “Bird?” he called testily, starting to shuffle away.
- "Th 'owd Parson!" testily; "I ha 'no patience wi' him.
- "Th 'owd parson!" testily; "I ha 'no patience wi' him.
- Sam blinked at his page, x-ed out one name testily, and put in the other.
- NEW ORLEANS -- The game, Nick Saban insisted rather testily the day before, was never about him.
- "Well, I know this," testily, "that I am not to be instructed as to the sort of person I can ask to my house."
- “What personal attacks?” he had asked testily, and not waiting for an answer demanded she identify “just one of my speeches or one of our ads that made a personal attack on Governor Morrison.”
- Kim Howells, Labour foreign office minister, delivered a "stern message" to the Ghanaian government in October 2007 about its lack of co-operation and responded "testily" to a request from Ghana's interior minister for more scanning equipment, saying "if a 'criminal' is operating equipment, it is worthless,"
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