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testily

/tes-tee/US // ˈtɛs ti //UK // (ˈtɛstɪ) //

试探性地,试验性地,试探地,试探性的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    tes·ti·er, tes·ti·est.

    • : irritably impatient; touchy.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • The Anglo-American “conversations” about the timing of the second front often grew heated and testy.

  • OPEC meets in Vienna on Friday, a meeting that will, according to the Wall Street Journal, be a mite testy.

  • He seemed a bit testy, angry, as if the world were against him.

  • I've never seen a government official get quite this testy with a reporter.

  • There is a relationship that develops, tense and often testy, between a journalist and his quarry.

  • But hitherto he had found none to answer his challenge, and his humour was testy.

  • Just as the testy trade of Upsal demanded the franchise for its eighty-one women, so would the Lowell mill.

  • Gordon opened his door a little way, and exclaimed in a testy and irritable tone, "Presently, presently."

  • As late as 1908 a caustic critic was challenged to a duel by the testy and furious family head of the Gourgauds.

  • On these occasions he was often seen to regard them both with a puzzled look on his somewhat testy but still kind-hearted face.