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Significados de tetchiness em inglês

Feeling easily irritated.

Sinônimos
Examples for "testiness"
Examples for "testiness"
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Galway hastened to call after the Doge in apology for his testiness.
Over the Pass
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This could prompt a little testiness on your part, especially with partners.
Ebony
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His fleshy face betrayed a testiness that his dark eyes immediately confirmed.
The charlemagne pursuit
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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...
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I was still too sick to concern myself with other people's touchiness.
Venus In Copper
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The desert regions of the West seemed always to breed truculence and touchiness.
The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado
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Allow me to tell you, that your petulance and touchiness are almost incredible.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 07
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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...
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However that may be, you shall never be able to reproach me for touchiness.
A Laodicean : A Story of To-day
Uso de tetchiness em inglês
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After two days of tetchiness, the public saw the much-discussed decency.
The Guardian
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The frustration and tetchiness of the political leaders were tangible.
The Irish Times
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Leysen pursed his lips, pausing for a moment to take note of her tetchiness.
Long time coming: a novel
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Two Vatican documents have been the occasion for this new manifestation of ecumenical "tetchiness".
The Irish Times
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Just the odd cramp, or a little tetchiness.
Moonburn
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It is entirely possible that the cause of his tetchiness is, in itself, his reluctance to speak.
The Irish Times
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When the man of few words speaks at all it is with a certain tetchiness a(...)
The Irish Times
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Now tetchiness and tardiness have publicly overtaken the expressions of hope that previously marked joint services for Christian unity.
The Irish Times
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Events leading up to the recent Week of Prayer for Christian Unity were mark ed by both tetchiness and tardiness.
The Irish Times
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It takes various shapes and forms from hair-trigger tetchiness to clinical excellence and several points on the spectrum in between.
The Irish Times
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What is the resurrection to mean to a church which today seems intent on witnessing only to fear and tetchiness?
The Irish Times
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None of the tetchiness and anxiety generated in the heat of Tbilisi carried through to Dublin but Ireland lost anyway.
The Irish Times
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Day 2: Stage 5: Paris to Bordeaux Enthusiasm is draining and tetchiness has taken its place.
The Guardian
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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
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The Emirates has been a cauldron of tetchiness at times, the air a little soured by repetition, by the same old irritations.
The Guardian
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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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