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UKtetchy
/tˈɛtʃi/
/tˈɛtʃi/
Examples
1. He even became uncharacteristically tetchy with Edward Aveling.
2. They’d capture us spending a lot of time at our parents’ house, and growing increasingly tetchy in their company.
3. If you’re in the USA you have more chance of being bitten by a shark, being seriously injured while on an amusement park ride, dying in an act or terrorism, and much more chance of being mauled by a tetchy bear.
4. We shut off large portions of our minds and end up uncreative, tetchy and defensive, while others around us have to suffer our irritability, gloom, manufactured cheerfulness or defensive rationalisations.
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