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:
- snappy
- cantankerous
- off-color
- disagreeable
- snippety
- combative
- surly
- scrappy
- belligerent
- ornery
- bearish
- quarrelsome
- touchy
- quick-tempered
- cross-grained
- argumentative
- ill-humored
- fretful
- dyspeptic
- tetchy
- bellicose
- truculent
- ill-tempered
- bilious
- curmudgeonly
- disputatious
- sulky
- perverse
- huffy
- ratty
- querulous
- pouty
- pugnacious
- off-colored
- snarly
- thin-skinned
- ill-natured
- fractious
- sullen
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FAQs About the word testily
in a petulant manner
fiery,irritable, short, cranky, snarky,peevish, snappish, contentious, choleric, out of humor
friendly, good-natured, agreeable, companionable, gregarious, sweet, amiable, sociable,cordial, affable
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.
