testiness

Example Sentences

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There was also a familiar bit of rivalry testiness aside from the drink-throwing fans.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2024

Moore, a second-round draft pick last year, played sparingly amid recent testiness with the organization that included him requesting to be traded.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2022

In “Tenet,” the sole source of testiness or human friction comes from an all-purpose Russian baddie who wants to destroy the world and his cagey wife.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020

And by the close of his life they had left their mark: testiness, distraction, impatience, battle fatigue.

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2020

“I’m sorry for that, and ought to thank him for not shaking me, I suppose. What the dickens does the fellow expect?” and the old gentleman looked a trifle ashamed of his own testiness.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott