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• r  in a petulant manner; `Go away!'"
  he said testily

• Complained Scott testily: "Some of our ministers believe there's a separate white heaven and a colored heaven.
• Confronted again on Good Morning America last week, the candidate who prides himself on talking straight testily attempted to turn the question on Bush, saying "I'll unseal mine .
• Again Clarke protests, after which Bush says "testily," "Look into Iraq, Saddam.

• irritably
• petulantly
• pettishly

News & Articles

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• Judge Reluctantly Approves Government Plan For Morning-After Pill
  An obviously unhappy Judge Edward Korman has approved the Obama administration's proposal to make just one formulation of the morning-after birth control pill available over the counter without age restrictions. But in a testily worded six-page memorandum , the federal district judge made it clear he is not particularly pleased with the outcome.
  June 13, 2013 - KERA North Texas
• Belichick, Patriots engulfed by the arrival of Tebowmania
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — It didn’t take Bill Belichick long — roughly five minutes — to run out of patience with Tebowmania yesterday. The famously sourpuss Patriots boss did his best to put a lid right away on the runaway hype machine known as Tim Tebow, jousting testily with reporters before banning the...
  June 12, 2013 - New York Post