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Meanings of tetchiness in English

Feeling easily irritated.

Synonyms
Examples for "testiness"
Examples for "testiness"
1
Galway hastened to call after the Doge in apology for his testiness.
Over the Pass
2
This could prompt a little testiness on your part, especially with partners.
Ebony
3
His fleshy face betrayed a testiness that his dark eyes immediately confirmed.
The charlemagne pursuit
4
The management consultant decided that testiness was what the situation now called for.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
5
The lady of honor with affected testiness addressed the Sleeping Beauty.
Everychild / A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young an...
1
I was still too sick to concern myself with other people's touchiness.
Venus In Copper
2
The desert regions of the West seemed always to breed truculence and touchiness.
The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado
3
Allow me to tell you, that your petulance and touchiness are almost incredible.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 07
4
It had all the interests and all the touchiness of a State, and more.
The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social R...
5
However that may be, you shall never be able to reproach me for touchiness.
A Laodicean : A Story of To-day
Usage of tetchiness in English
1
After two days of tetchiness, the public saw the much-discussed decency.
The Guardian
2
The frustration and tetchiness of the political leaders were tangible.
The Irish Times
3
Leysen pursed his lips, pausing for a moment to take note of her tetchiness.
Long time coming: a novel
4
Two Vatican documents have been the occasion for this new manifestation of ecumenical "tetchiness".
The Irish Times
5
Just the odd cramp, or a little tetchiness.
Moonburn
6
It is entirely possible that the cause of his tetchiness is, in itself, his reluctance to speak.
The Irish Times
7
When the man of few words speaks at all it is with a certain tetchiness a(...)
The Irish Times
8
Now tetchiness and tardiness have publicly overtaken the expressions of hope that previously marked joint services for Christian unity.
The Irish Times
9
Events leading up to the recent Week of Prayer for Christian Unity were mark ed by both tetchiness and tardiness.
The Irish Times
10
It takes various shapes and forms from hair-trigger tetchiness to clinical excellence and several points on the spectrum in between.
The Irish Times
11
What is the resurrection to mean to a church which today seems intent on witnessing only to fear and tetchiness?
The Irish Times
12
None of the tetchiness and anxiety generated in the heat of Tbilisi carried through to Dublin but Ireland lost anyway.
The Irish Times
13
Day 2: Stage 5: Paris to Bordeaux Enthusiasm is draining and tetchiness has taken its place.
The Guardian
14
We've become used to seeing tetchiness and tardiness in the dealings of politicians and paramili taries, or between farmers and factory processors.
The Irish Times
15
The Emirates has been a cauldron of tetchiness at times, the air a little soured by repetition, by the same old irritations.
The Guardian
16
What is moving about this performance is that it contains all the tetchiness, sadness and sorrow, as well as occasional bawdiness of old age.
The Guardian
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