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"Why do you think this team has been so tetchy in the series?"

It's easy to see why the Bush crowd is getting so tetchy.

Lawyers are a bit tetchy these days about their "image."

If so, she has every cause to feel scarred and a bit tetchy about the issue.

He'd suspected she was just tetchy after not sleeping well.

Meredith went up to the rehearsal room in a less tetchy state of mind.

On a good day he made it as far as tetchy.

There are few in this campaign, and so we are rather tetchy.

"I'll just take these dogs on home first, seem' as how they make her all tetchy like.

The President is tetchy about complaints that he doesn't have a vision.

For not only was she off her food and tetchy but decidedly pale into the bargain.

But we'll grow tetchy if there are literals every few lines.

So don't be tetchy when I think twice before getting you involved in it."

The author turns 60 during his trip, and to say he's tetchy about it is a wild understatement.

No wonder she also earned a reputation for tetchy ill temper.

'Now you mention it she has been a bit tetchy.

Tetchy phone systems and language barriers worsen the problems.

Twenty points ahead in the polls, all he has to do is get through the night without a gaffe or being tetchy.

Advertising is a tetchy industry and many clients are picky about who gets associated with their products.

Mr. Jarrett has a reputation for being tetchy with audiences.

He guesses that's why Paul is sometimes tetchy with Keith.

"Today," said his wife, "Father is in a tetchy mood.

But the notion that they might someday share adjoining chapters in the history books is a tetchy one.

- You never gave me the chance, Henry retorted in tetchy impatience.

It was my daughter and her tetchy moods.