Definition of "testily" [testily]

• In the manner of someone who is testy. (adverb)

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• "“Bird?” he called testily, starting to shuffle away."
• "Sam blinked at his page, x-ed out one name testily, and put in the other."
• ""Well, I know this," testily, "that I am not to be instructed as to the sort of person I can ask to my house.""