tetchy

How To Use tetchy In A Sentence

• One woman said: 'I wondered why people in the front row were getting tetchy. The Sun
• I get tetchy, wanting to go out and get things done. Tew's Day!
• After a difficult two months, blighted by injuries to her back and thigh, the tall Californian has looked tetchy and out of sorts this week.
• Might get a bit tetchy. Times, Sunday Times
• In the north, the Gauls are threatening, the Greeks are grumbling to the east, and Rome's biggest threat, the Carthaginians, are growing tetchy to the south.
• It was that kind of match, always tetchy, often bad-tempered.
• You always get tetchy when you're hungry.
• When he gets a good result, he sometimes wants to react and say, ‘there you are’ to his detractors, but equally a bad result can make him tetchy.
• Now that the competition is a straight knockout, supporters yesterday grew increasingly tetchy over Dundee's failure to score and Sartid's gamesmanship.
• Other Amazing Race contestants are tetchy that the couple are there, as the pair find it easier to get favours from strangers because they get recognised.