Crossword-Solution: TESTY 5 letters, 171 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Testy superl. Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.

We have 171 clues for the answer “TESTY”

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A bit quick to be ticked 1 answer
Acting irritable 1 answer
Acting peevish 1 answer
Apt to strike out 1 answer
Best left alone 1 answer
Clearly low on patience 1 answer
Cross all the time 1 answer
Cross and on edge 1 answer
Definitely not in a good mood 1 answer
Easily irked 1 answer
Easily irritated or annoyed 1 answer
Easily nettled 1 answer
Easily put out 1 answer
Easily snapping 1 answer
Easily ticked off 1 answer
Easy to irritate 1 answer
Feisty and easy to anger 1 answer
Hardly easygoing 1 answer
Having little patience 1 answer
Impatient and irritable 1 answer
In a grouchy mood 1 answer
In a peevish mood 1 answer
In no mood for joking 1 answer
Inclined to snap 1 answer
Inclined to strike out 1 answer
Irritable and impatient 1 answer
Irritable and impatient, e.g. 1 answer
Irritably impatient 1 answer
Irrritable 1 answer
Like a quick snapper 1 answer
Like someone with a short fuse 1 answer
Not easygoing 1 answer
Not exactly easygoing 1 answer
Not handling criticism well 1 answer
Not to be messed with 1 answer
On a short fuse, say 1 answer
On the peevish side 1 answer
Prone to snapping 1 answer
Quick to bark 1 answer
Quick to be ticked 1 answer
Quick to complain 1 answer
Quick to flip 1 answer
Quick to get angry 1 answer
Quick to get defensive, perhaps 1 answer
Quick to get ticked 1 answer
Quick to snap 1 answer
Quick to start in, perhaps 1 answer
Set off without much provocation 1 answer
Short, say 1 answer
Short-fused 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TESTY (5)

There was an air of gravity and importance about the garb of this person, and something indescribably odd, I might say awful, in the perfect, stone-like movelessness of the figure, that effectually checked the testy comment which had at once risen to the lips of the irritated artist.
The Purcell Papers Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 2008
There is a little testy old man, with a powdered head, who always sits on the right-hand side of the door as you enter, with his hands folded on the top of his umbrella.
Sketches by Boz Charles Dickens 1997
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.
Maid Marian Thomas Love Peacock 1997
But, gentlemen, pray distance keep, And don’t too testy be; Ill words good manners still corrupt And spoil good company.
The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England Various 2015
Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish love That like a testy babe will scratch the nurse And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod! How churlishly I chid Lucetta hence, When willingly I would have had her here! How angerly I taught my brow to frown, When inward joy enforced my heart to smile! My penance is to call Lucetta back And ask remission for my folly past.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona William Shakespeare 1998

Quotes with TESTY (3)

Oh, shimmer down, Hunter. You're too testy. How many times have I've told you that you need to chill out, take a vacay. Disney World is really fun this time of the year. you should check it out.
Jennifer L. Armentrout Obsession
Hey!” The male voice sliced through the noise. Terri ignored him, determined to get back to the bar for her next order. A harsh hand gripped her arm, jerking her back into a firm chest. “I asked your name.” Hot breath reeking of stale beer permeated her sinuses, making her stomach turn, as the tenor of his voice burrowed into her ear. Fear gripped her. Memories of the way Randy would grab her, and where it always ended, slammed into her, making her head spin. Shaking it off, …
Brandi Salazar Spring Cleaning
Don't give it to them all at once, make them work for it. Confuse them with detail, leave things out, go back on your tracks. Be testy, be cussed, be difficult. Drink like a fish; don't give way on the ideology, they won't trust that. They want to deal with a man they've bought; they want the clash of opposites, Alec, not some half-cock convert.
John le Carre The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 380 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).