adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And all the time Chief Inspector Morse sat, less tetchy now, staring at the street map of Oxford.
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And I noticed another thing: Jean-Claude was tetchy .
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But he was more withdrawn, tetchy .
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He guesses that's why Paul is sometimes tetchy with Keith.
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Meredith went up to the rehearsal room in a less tetchy state of mind.
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Nobody had ever seen the Manager look so pale and tetchy as the morning after.
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There are few in this campaign, and so we are rather tetchy .