testily

Example Sentences

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He testily responds with, "So? I don't need a phone and a watch!"

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2021

“Seshadri’s poems are testily smart, often funny, conceptually intricate and so chock-full of irony that it’s hard to avoid making a pun here involving magnets or multivitamins,” David Orr writes in his review.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2020

Marie-Laure Satta, at 37 one of the senior nurses, confronts them testily, with Reynier looking a little lost at her side.

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2020

Pressed as to why Trump would make a jocular reference to a pandemic that has cost at least 120,000 American lives, he responded testily: “Asked and answered.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2020

Maycomb thrived on rumors, there would be all kinds of stories getting back to Atticus— Mr. Tuffett was sitting behind his desk, gazing testily at its top.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee