testy

How To Use testy In A Sentence

• But the opener did turn a bit testy in the eighth inning when Grant Balfour hit J.D. Drew in the right shoulder with a high fastball, prompting a few Red Sox to holler from the bench. Dice-K masterful as Red Sox beat Rays in ALCS opener
• She asked me to pass on her apologies for being testy in comments threads, which I'm sure are wholly unnecessary in any case.
• Some of the conversations could get a bit testy, especially if they resulted in a letter not being used. Times, Sunday Times
• And it's only one example of recent hidden risks that are increasingly bubbling into corporate bottom lines and making shareholders testy about companies 'untracked social and environmental challenges. Mindy S. Lubber: BP Drops the Ball, Nike Scores
• I get testy when people put whole books or short stories or poems up on their website, without permission, especially when they know it's wrong.
• There was an air of gravity and importance about the garb of this person, and something indescribably odd, I might say awful, in the perfect, stone-like movelessness of the figure, that effectually checked the testy comment which had at once risen to the lips of the irritated artist. The Purcell Papers
• The minute he is questioned, he becomes testy and defensive.
• He cowld nat denay but that they were sette there nat longe agoo, and also the mater dyd playnly testyfye ye same. The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion
• It is an essential accessory for any testy superpower rivalry. Times, Sunday Times
• I don't blame Rosenthal for being a bit testy after my cheekiness.