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- adjective
superlative form oftesty : mosttesty .
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Examples
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(This week will be heavy with confirmation hearings; later this week, Eric Holder Jr. will appear in what may be the testiest hearing as he faces confirmation to be Attorney General.)
Live Blog: Clinton’s Confirmation Hearing - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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(This week will be heavy with confirmation hearings; later this week, Eric Holder Jr. will appear in what may be the testiest hearing as he faces confirmation to be Attorney General.)
Live Blog: Clinton’s Confirmation Hearing - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Partisan wrangling over how to reduce the federal deficit hit a new low Wednesday when President Barack Obama ended his testiest meeting with congressional leaders by declaring "enough is enough."
Drama Level Rises, but Signs of Movement Carol E. Lee 2011
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The testiest exchanges were with the Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, Jeff Sessions.
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Updated 2: 55: We just saw the testiest exchange in the entire hearing - between Sens.
Doug Kendall: Liveblogging the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings 2009
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Updated 2: 55: We just saw the testiest exchange in the entire hearing - between Sens.
Doug Kendall: Liveblogging the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings 2009
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ON THE BALLOTIllegal ImmigrationCalifornia's Prop 187, which would expel illegal aliens from schools and deny them nonemergency medical care, is the testiest issue in state elections.
Midterm Mud Bath 2008
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But the award for testiest aliens goes to the mound-building barrels who get very upset when Jarvis and Tweel invade their inner sanctum – Eeek!
BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum 2008
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Someone equally cynical leftword might say Trotskyites and liberal Democrats turned out to be the testiest of neocons -- like converts to Catholicism who come to Communion late in life.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Mamet, Miller, And The Ole Hitcheroo Switcheroo 2008
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French horn players, their instruments the testiest of all, could rarely get it up, but percussionists could make beautiful music out of anything.
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