tetchy

Example Sentences

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Porter apologized and expressed remorse for her tetchy behavior.

From Los Angeles Times

And after the tetchy, scratchy, emotional exchanges in the High Court, it's not something that you think he'll miss.

From BBC

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