0 the quality of becoming annoyed very easily and of not being patient: --
Tiredness may account for some of his testiness.
They have a gentle rapport that unfolds convincingly after some initial testiness.
I think that he overdid the testiness.
Any humour that there was fell very flat and the testiness was unnecessary.
It is not just testiness on the part of teachers.
This leads to greater tolerance (leniency) of miscommunication in interactions with prestige groups but less tolerance (testiness) in interactions with members of a socially marginalized group.
He exhibits none of the Prime Minister's ill-concealed testiness.
By the following morning there was a considerable amount of irritability and testiness in the air.
They were frayed at the edges and it showed in their testiness .
