Meanings of tetchiness in anglès

After two days of tetchiness, the public saw the much-discussed decency.

The frustration and tetchiness of the political leaders were tangible.

Leysen pursed his lips, pausing for a moment to take note of her tetchiness.

Two Vatican documents have been the occasion for this new manifestation of ecumenical "tetchiness".

Just the odd cramp, or a little tetchiness.

It is entirely possible that the cause of his tetchiness is, in itself, his reluctance to speak.

When the man of few words speaks at all it is with a certain tetchiness a(...)

Now tetchiness and tardiness have publicly overtaken the expressions of hope that previously marked joint services for Christian unity.

Events leading up to the recent Week of Prayer for Christian Unity were mark ed by both tetchiness and tardiness.

It takes various shapes and forms from hair-trigger tetchiness to clinical excellence and several points on the spectrum in between.

What is the resurrection to mean to a church which today seems intent on witnessing only to fear and tetchiness?

None of the tetchiness and anxiety generated in the heat of Tbilisi carried through to Dublin but Ireland lost anyway.

Day 2: Stage 5: Paris to Bordeaux Enthusiasm is draining and tetchiness has taken its place.

We've become used to seeing tetchiness and tardiness in the dealings of politicians and paramili taries, or between farmers and factory processors.

The Emirates has been a cauldron of tetchiness at times, the air a little soured by repetition, by the same old irritations.

What is moving about this performance is that it contains all the tetchiness, sadness and sorrow, as well as occasional bawdiness of old age.