Crossword-Solution: TESTINESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Testiness | n. | The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “TESTINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Crabby quality | 1 answer |
| Sour qualilty | 1 answer |
| Short fuse | 4 answers |
| Peevishness | 9 answers |
| Petulance | 9 answers |
| irritability | 30 answers |
| Passion | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TESTINESS (5)
What the dickens does the fellow expect?” and the old gentleman looked a trifle ashamed of his own testiness.
Moreover, he must keep himself free from all those perturbations of mind which not only weaken energy, but darken and confuse the inductive faculty; from haste and laziness, from melancholy, testiness, pride, and all the passions which make men see only what they wish to see.
The lodger, in the testiness of being so rudely roused, had pushed his nightcap very much on one side of his bald head.
The friar had often had experience of the baron’s testy humour; but it had always before confined itself to words, in which the habit of testiness often mingled more expression of displeasure than the internal feeling prompted.
But remember that, whatever your motives, your worship countenanced him in this lie.” The bright unhappy eyes on each side of a predatory nose confronted Byrne without wincing, while with that testiness which lurks so often at the bottom of Spanish dignity— “No doubt the señor officer would not lose an ounce of blood if I were stuck under the fifth rib,” he retorted.
Quotes with TESTINESS (1)
A voice is a product of the writer’s own Pandora Box of insight, insecurities, bravado, modesty, humility, affection, understanding, and confidence. In short, a voice reflects the writers’ sangfroid. The tenor of the writer’s voice also reflects their insecurities, self-doubt, egotism, testiness, and the ability to identify with their mental and physical infirmities. The inflection that distinguishes a writer’s pitch from other wordsmiths’ tone reflects their collective lifet…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2001–2006).