Exempel på tetchy

• Hargreaves towered throughout, gripping the audience from the outset: tetchy, moody, nervous, wheedling, sympathetic, insistent and bossy; but always engaging.

• It has also been somewhat tetchy and bad-tempered in places.

• Already in this country the cost of supporting dysfunctional families is reaching a level at which people are beginning to feel tetchy about it.

• He will remember it very well, because he got a bit tetchy.

• Much of that work will be complicated and very tetchy, as the earlier exchanges on sugar and other commodities have demonstrated.

• As we may have to wait even until the summer, tempers may get a little tetchy, as last night's closing session proved.

• It is getting late and no doubt that is why we are getting confused and at times tetchy.

• I am sorry to sound rather tetchy, but this has been made to sound as though it is a very splendid amendment.

• I am just saying that he is in rather a tetchy mood, that is all.

• I suspect that he has not yet had a chance to have his dinner, because his tetchy tone rather suggested a drop in his blood sugar level.

• I was not at all tetchy.

• He was effortlessly tetchy and contentious, forver falling out with those around him, incapable of seeing other perspectives, incapable of compromise...

• Starkey claimed that with age his mentor became tetchy and arrogant.