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单词 tetchy
释义
tetchy
adjective
uk
/ˈtetʃ.i/us
/ˈtetʃ.i/
easilymadeangry,unhappy, orupset:
易怒的，暴躁的；情绪易波动的
Becarefulwhat you say to Anna - she's been a little tetchylately.你跟安娜说话时得小心点——她近来情绪很不好。
Synonyms
cranky(BAD-TEMPERED)mainlyUSinformal
fractious
irritable
peevish
petulantdisapproving
testy
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Bad-tempered
  • argumentative
  • bad-tempered
  • be hell on wheelsidiom
  • be like a bear with a sore headidiom
  • be spoiling for a fightidiom
  • grumpily
  • grumpiness
  • grumpy
  • have a short fuseidiom
  • hell
  • petulance
  • petulant
  • petulantly
  • pugnacious
  • pugnacity
  • surliness
  • testily
  • testiness
  • testy
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tetchily
tetchiness
(Definition oftetchyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftetchy

tetchy
It has also been somewhattetchyand bad-tempered in places.
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Already in this country the cost of supporting dysfunctional families is reaching a level at which people are beginning to feeltetchyabout it.
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He will remember it very well, because he got a bittetchy.
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Much of that work will be complicated and verytetchy, as the earlier exchanges on sugar and other commodities have demonstrated.
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As we may have to wait even until the summer, tempers may get a littletetchy, as last night's closing session proved.
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It is getting late and no doubt that is why we are getting confused and at timestetchy.
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I am sorry to sound rathertetchy, but this has been made to sound as though it is a very splendid amendment.
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I am just saying that he is in rather atetchymood, that is all.
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I suspect that he has not yet had a chance to have his dinner, because histetchytone rather suggested a drop in his blood sugar level.
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I was not at alltetchy.
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He was effortlesslytetchyand contentious, forver falling out with those around him, incapable of seeing other perspectives, incapable of compromise...
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Starkey claimed that with age his mentor becametetchyand arrogant.
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