Definitions

tetchy

[tech-ee] / ˈtɛtʃ i /

ADJECTIVE

testy

Synonyms

WEAK

annoyed bad-tempered cantankerous captious choleric crabbed cranky cross crotchety edgy exasperated fretful grouchy grumpy impatient irascible mean ornery out of sorts peevish peppery petulant quarrelsome quick-tempered short-tempered snappy splenetic sullen thin-skinned touchy uptight waspish

Example Sentences

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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

Responding to the committee's conservative president who had just rebuked him in a tetchy opening to the hearing, Sanchez fired back that "I think this is a circus."

From Barron's

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday told a tetchy Senate committee hearing into a corruption scandal that has rocked his minority leftist government that the probe was "a circus".

From Barron's

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