testily

He testily sparred with a shareholder lawyer, Nicholas Porritt, who had raised his ire earlier in the trial.

Dr. Vinson suspected the boy was diagnosed with O.D.D. partly because he had reacted testily to the other clinician during examination.

“I’m not your countess,” Violet said testily, a word which here means “in an extremely annoyed tone.”

Gableman refused to answer questions from the attorney representing American Oversight and testily said Remington had “abandoned his role as a neutral magistrate and is acting as an advocate.”

“If you will not give me what I want,” he said testily, “then I will take it.”