tetchy in English

adjective
1
bad-tempered and irritable.
You can see why people might get a little tetchy about their personal privacy with one company carving so many avenues into their lives, even if I do think those worries are ultimately unfounded.

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1. You always get tetchy when you're hungry.

2. Jane's a bit tetchy this morning.

3. He was in a particularly tetchy mood yesterday.

4. He guesses that's why Paul is sometimes tetchy with Keith.

5. But he was more withdrawn, tetchy.

6. There's no need to be so tetchy ( with me )!

7. There's no need to be so tetchy!

8. He sounded tetchy when I asked him where he'd been.

9. But relations between America and Britain in Afghanistan have been tetchy.

10. And I noticed another thing: Jean-Claude was tetchy.

11. There are few in this campaign, and so we are rather tetchy.

12. Be careful what you say to Anna - she's in a rather tetchy mood.

13. Wounded, tetchy and less effective than It'should be, America is still the power that counts.

14. She can be a bit tetchy but her bark is worse than her bite.

15. Choleric adjective bad-tempered, cross, angry, irritable, touchy, petulant, ill-tempered, irascible, tetchy, ratty (Brit

16. Synonyms for Curmudgeonly include irritable, testy, grumpy, cantankerous, irascible, peevish, grouchy, tetchy, crabby and cranky

17. Synonyms for Bolshie include argumentative, belligerent, crabby, difficult, grouchy, quarrelsome, stroppy, tetchy, contrary and contumacious

18. Nobody had ever seen the Manager look so pale and tetchy as the morning after.

19. Tetchy, funny, ugly and clever, this replays the dynamic of a first-class film noir.

20. And all the time Chief Inspector Morse sat, less tetchy now, staring at the street map of Oxford.

21. Spitefulness or Bad temper. The quality of being tetchy, or irritable. Bad temper. Anger or aggression associated with conflict arising from a particular situation

22. A tetchy reviewer in The New Age called the novel a ‘silly and impudent little tale with Beethoven for [its] hero’ in which the ‘Authorling composes the musician’s psychology’, a response which misses how silliness and impudence do not necessarily rank among the suspect virtues