Testily

"Testily" in a Sentence (7 examples)

"This conversation is going nowhere," she stated testily.

She responded testily that the mistake wasn't hers to correct.

[…]thinking it urgent to say something, I asked him presently if he felt any cold draught from the door, which was behind him. "No, no!" he responded shortly and somewhat testily.

`We have been looking for a mystery, and we certainly seem to have found one.' `What do I make of it? Why, that your poor dear father was off his head, of course,' I answered, testily.

"Sit ye down, I'm sayin'," said Uncle Jobson testily.

“Starve? Stuff and nonsense!” he retorted testily. “No able-bodied fellow need starve nowadays. [...] Pshaw! Starve! That's always your, cuckoo cry!”

'Oh, for heaven's sake,' said Prak and died testily.

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