This, reader, is the abode of the testy but extremely dignified Mrs. Swiggs.
He will make a good amount of fees out of Tom yet; and what his testy old mother declines to pay, he will charge to the State, as the law gives him a right to do.
John has frequently been advised to have the old edifice thoroughly overhauled, and to have some of the useless parts pulled down, and the others strengthened with their materials; but the old gentleman always grows testyon this subject.
How could a man choose but prove a 'testy neighbour' at a time when the law was powerless and every man was trying to enlarge his boundaries at the expense of his next neighbour?
A man has hired out as nurse to a testy old invalid, who has changed one after the other all the attendants he has engaged.
By one of the many ironies of fate, however, the testy colonel has left the attendant sole heir to his possessions; for the invalid has felt genuine appreciation, despite the anger to which he was subject.
If I might teach thee wit better it were, Though not to love, yet love to tell me so, As testy sick men when their deaths be near, No news but health from their physicians know.
Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night; The starry welkin cover thou anon With drooping fog as black as Acheron, And lead these testyrivals so astray As one come not within another's way.
Defn: In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.
Must I observe you must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor Shak.
He was a testy old fellow, and he, like other guests of the hotel, had become exceedingly tired of Mrs. Paxton and her unlovely child.
One testy old gentleman who was troubled with gout, spoke rather plainly.
The best-tempered people in the world grow snappish at whist; and I have seen the most testy and peevish in the ordinary affairs of life bear their losses with the stoicism of Epictetus.
Most of the castles of the testy Victorian tetrarchs are gone now or decayed into boarding-houses, but the Eathorne Mansion remains virtuous and aloof, reminiscent of London, Back Bay, Rittenhouse Square.
His windy endowments had long excited the admiration of Antony Van Corlear, who is said to have hinted more than once to William the Testy that in making Van Poffenburgh a general he had spoiled an admirable trumpeter.
Brief and uninteresting the trial turned out to be with the chief prisoner withdrawn, and throughout the proceedings the Deemster's vexation was betrayed by his thin, sharp, testy voice.
After he was gone, Shanty begged leave to have a few minutes given him for washing his hands and face and making himself decent, and then walked up with the testy old gentlemen to the castle.
I wonder what always makes you so mighty testy à l'endroit du gros Jean?
He deserved condign punishment for his testy crotchets.
My good Major was growing old, and was not unnaturally a little testy at the manner in which his hostess received him.
Tom had grown testy and irritated and refused another day.
We have seen the friendly demonstration he made to the testy Venetian on entering into battle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "testy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
