Testily
['tɛstɪli]
Examples
- I meant,' exclaimed Wegg, testily, 'to the party as formerly objected? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I don't know about mercy, said Mr. Vincy, testily. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Don't be above calling it wages, man,' said Mr Boffin, testily. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Why, you get blinder every day, Bedwin,' said Mr. Brownlow, rather testily. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- That is a mistake--it must have been someone else, he said slowly and testily, for he perceived that Venn's countermoves had begun again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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