as in irritable
easily offended
a morose and tetchy resident of a nursing home
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Recent Examples of tetchy
One is her ex, the struggling, somewhat tetchy actor/caterer John, played by Chris Evans.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
The first takes us back to January 2023 and the first leg of a tetchy Carabao Cup semi-final against Southampton, whose Duje Caleta-Car is shown a red card late on.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 21 May 2025
At least, that’s how a plurality of Americans perceive the tetchy state of our union.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
Read more Tesla's share price recovers ground after tetchy start
Elon Musk's claims linking Ukraine to X outage spark backlash
You're Fired!
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
The first takes us back to January 2023 and the first leg of a tetchy Carabao Cup semi-final against Southampton, whose Duje Caleta-Car is shown a red card late on.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 21 May 2025
At least, that’s how a plurality of Americans perceive the tetchy state of our union.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
Read more Tesla's share price recovers ground after tetchy start
Elon Musk's claims linking Ukraine to X outage spark backlash
You're Fired!
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tetchy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tetchy
Adjective
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He was adopted two weeks later, but after 18 months in his home, Scoob developed a painful skin condition that caused his ears to bleed and left him extremely irritable.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Instead, Helen is allowed to be irritable and anti-social, chain-smoking and snappish, without the filmmaker casting judgment.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Bella, now three and a half years old, was described by Overbye as calm, sensitive, quiet, smart, and playful.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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Prevent this by grounding AI in your documents and adding human review for sensitive content.—
Louis Mosca,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The first, rather vacuous season hinges in part on whether the Russells’ neighbor—the huffy, old-money Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski)—will ever cross Sixty-first Street to visit.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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Mister Terrific, who is not a humorous man but is very funny because of it, gets very huffy over Superman’s jibes and storms off.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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It’s also oddly bifurcated into two noticeably chunks, with the first half focusing on Hank and Yvonne’s tender but touchy, highly tectchy relationship and the second half leaning into the gonzo forward momentum of a get-the-dough crime flick.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
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After Caroline's statement, a Kennedy family insider told PEOPLE that there's always been a touchy dynamic between JFK's daughter and the many children of RFK, noting that Caroline's attack merely brought the tension to the surface.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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However, Apollo economist Torsten Slok said policymakers are in a ticklish spot now with inflation still above target and the soft jobs picture, putting the central bank’s dual goals of stable prices and full employment in conflict.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
8 Sep. 2025
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It’s certainly made for these (end) times: a lushly surreal, cynically ticklish goof on the ineffectiveness of political summits as apocalyptic dread mounts.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Oct. 2024
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“Tetchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tetchy. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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