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
Offers of relief have been declined with pride, with testiness, with tender uncertainty because somehow we’ve learned that a stranger’s offer of concern still amounts to an invasion of privacy.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
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
