tetchy

One source said the talks at times were “fraught and tetchy”.

Postecoglou. who has understandably cut a discontented and tetchy figure as Spurs dropped from the brilliance of their 3-0 win at Manchester United to lose so disappointingly at Brighton and Palace, willingly made a rod for his own back, and those of his players, with his own particular "second season syndrome".

Maybe it was the mood music around the England team that made coach Brendon McCullum tetchy the day before this first Test in Pakistan.

It was Trump who ended the night with a bead of sweat on his upper lip and the tetchy demeanor of someone whose antagonist had clearly burrowed under his skin.

Buttler has often been in a tetchy mood, which McCullum described as "a little bit miserable at times".