tetchy

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

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.

With the home support a bit tetchy and in no mood for Christmas cheer, the big man was booed.

This matters because conventional wisdom suggests MPs who are a little tetchy and grumpy, and prone to plotting, are better off not in Westminster.