tetchy
Example Sentences
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Stokes said he was shell-shocked in some tetchy post-match media interactions, comments that were used against the captain as England lost the PR battle in the days after the Test.
From BBC
The relationship between the government and its backbenchers is at best tetchy, at its worst volcanic.
From BBC
I am not upset if he was a little tetchy.
From BBC
In a tetchy exchange, the officials insisted that the response had been swift and effective and that it was "untrue and insulting" to criticise.
From BBC
It was the most tetchy round table so far, as the pressure and frustration mounted.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
