testiness

The testiness reflects an ambivalence in the field about what Markham and the Blue Brain team are trying to do.

The skipper of the Sprite exhibited a little testiness at being barred out of Mayo's confidence.

Testiness in argument is a quality peculiar to the Celt, and in the Hearn family was inordinately developed.

"Certainly—of course I did," he returned, with the sudden testiness of disturbed abstraction.

The doctor interrupted, less out of charity for Mrs. Brenton than from his own impatient testiness.

"And they ferret out everything," said Herbert with some testiness.