tetchy in the PONS Dictionary

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Perhaps, after many years of inequality, women are entitled to be a bit more tetchy when their looks are criticised.
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It's the insecure people who get a bit touchy and tetchy.
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Hart finished the scoring to end a tetchy but action-packed semi-final.
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He isn't just touchy: he's tetchy, a tendency only magnified by being 39 and largely held together with athletic tape and cussedness.
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Instead of dispatching the half-volley with a platitude before going on holiday, he gave a tetchy, telling response.
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For this is why wives become so tetchy when their husbands retire -- because we can't do what we like any more.
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He got tetchy, the last recourse of the playground bully.
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He was occasionally tetchy, but that was understandable in such draining conditions.
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It was an intense affair that followed a rather tetchy build-up.
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Some of you, like me, will feel tetchy.
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