testily Sentence Examples
- The manager testily reprimanded the employee for their tardiness.
- The professor testily interrupted the student to correct a factual error.
- The neighbor testily complained about the loud music coming from my apartment.
- The cashier testily demanded payment for the groceries after the customer hesitated.
- The parent testily warned their child to stop misbehaving.
- The boss testily questioned the employee's decision-making skills.
- The teacher testily scolded the student for not completing their homework.
- The doctor testily explained the side effects of the medication to the patient.
- The driver testily shouted at the cyclist who cut them off in traffic.
- The librarian testily hushed a patron who was talking too loudly in the library.
testily Meaning
Wordnet
testily (r)
in a petulant manner
Synonyms & Antonyms of testily
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
Synonyms:
- ornery
- quick-tempered
- off-color
- belligerent
- disputatious
- snarly
- scrappy
- disagreeable
- ill-natured
- combative
- bearish
- querulous
- bilious
- touchy
- ill-tempered
- cantankerous
- snappy
- dyspeptic
- truculent
- ratty
- argumentative
- fractious
- cross-grained
- huffy
- ill-humored
- perverse
- off-colored
- tetchy
- snippety
- sullen
- fretful
- pugnacious
- thin-skinned
- quarrelsome
- sulky
- pouty
- surly
- curmudgeonly
- bellicose
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FAQs About the word testily
in a petulant manner
fiery,irritable, out of humor, snappish, petulant, choleric, out of sorts, grumpy, cranky, snippy
good-natured, companionable, sociable, cordial, sociable, extraverted, sweet, outgoing, agreeable, extroverted
The manager testily reprimanded the employee for their tardiness.
The professor testily interrupted the student to correct a factual error.
The neighbor testily complained about the loud music coming from my apartment.
The cashier testily demanded payment for the groceries after the customer hesitated.
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