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In a testy exchange, Carone accuses Republican state representatives of tampering with state voting records when one official tells her the poll book is not off by 30,000 votes.
RUDY GIULIANI’S BIZARRE LEGAL STRATEGY, IN TWO CLIPSJERUSALEM DEMSASDECEMBER 3, 2020VOXBut hitherto he had found none to answer his challenge, and his humour was testy.
THE WATCHERS OF THE TRAILSCHARLES G. D. ROBERTSJust as the testy trade of Upsal demanded the franchise for its eighty-one women, so would the Lowell mill.
THE COLLEGE, THE MARKET, AND THE COURTCAROLINE H. DALLGordon opened his door a little way, and exclaimed in a testy and irritable tone, "Presently, presently."
THE LIFE OF GORDON, VOLUME IDEMETRIUS CHARLES BOULGERAs late as 1908 a caustic critic was challenged to a duel by the testy and furious family head of the Gourgauds.
THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANEOn these occasions he was often seen to regard them both with a puzzled look on his somewhat testy but still kind-hearted face.
DICKORY DOCKL. T. MEADEI never saw a more abject young man; he had not even the spirit to resent the testy stab I had given him with my umbrella.
THE LITTLE WHITE BIRDJ. M. BARRIEHer father was a testy old country gentleman, very irritable and obstinate.
MEMOIRS OF ARTHUR HAMILTON, B. A. OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGEARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSONHe was now in that unpleasant state of prickly heat when testy old gentlemen could commit slaughter with ecstasy.
EVAN HARRINGTON, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHEven the testy George Hay reluctantly yielded to his engaging qualities.
THE LIFE OF JOHN MARSHALL VOLUME 4 OF 4ALBERT J. BEVERIDGEWORDS RELATED TO TESTY
- bad-tempered
- bearish
- bloody-minded
- captious
- choleric
- contrary
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- disagreeable
- dour
- grouchy
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-natured
- irascible
- irritable
- morose
- obstinate
- ornery
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- quarrelsome
- snappish
- sour
- stubborn
- testy
- vinegarish
- vinegary
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
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