How to Use tetchy in a Sentence

tetchy

adjective

• On the eve of the spring classics, the atmosphere is tetchy.
  — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
• In the first week of testimony, Musk took the stand and couldn’t help but get tetchy.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
• His years of watching films and writing about them had given him a tetchy sort of autonomy.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
• Some of the friction — never mind the crises at hand — may also stem from tetchy personal relations.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2020
• At least, that’s how a plurality of Americans perceive the tetchy state of our union.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
• One is her ex, the struggling, somewhat tetchy actor/caterer John, played by Chris Evans.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
• For all the tetchy lockdown sparring in between these scenes, there’s finally something to be said for togetherness.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
• Sunak dropped his attempts at contrition and became tetchy and confrontational instead.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
• Both shows feature fish-out-of-water scenarios and Levy as a tetchy gay man with a difficult sister—though Nicky has two of those, not just one.
  — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2026
• But the rail system and its overhead electric catenary wire system - a tetchy tangle of wires dating to 1907 - are anything but pretty.
  — Lynnley Browning, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2014
• Edgily eager to shoot their scenes and get a move on with their acting lives, the increasingly tetchy trio are stuck in virtual drydock as all actual moviemaking has drained away.
  — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 Mar. 2026
• Perhaps a sequel might suggest that Adolf Hitler’s teetotalism put him in a tetchy mood; a relaxing glass of schnapps might have kept him out of Poland.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2018
• The travel show in which a tetchy British comedian joins celebrities on jaunts to various international locales?
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2020
• Or the public’s general distaste for being confronted with tetchy societal issues will still prevail; doom-scrolling should be done on one’s phone at home, not out in the world among other people.
  — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
• The administration has at times had a tetchy relationship with the company after excluding it from an event held to promote EVs.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Reynolds is a tetchy tyrant, who, enabled by his sister, Cyril (Lesley Manville), has embraced a need to have things just so as a means of warding off vulnerability.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
• North Korea's tetchy relationship with China is driven by its desire not to appear like a satellite state, according to Kelly.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 10 May 2017
• In 2017, parts of Silver Springs State Park had to be shut down because the monkeys were getting tetchy about human visitors.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
• Laying bright, bracing guitars over taut, tetchy, minimalist drums and bass, their sound brings to mind Wire and the very earliest Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
• But pursuing less tetchy relations with China, the policy of the KMT for decades, is becoming ever less marketable.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2020
• Widely criticised for the unadventurous nature of United's performances for much of this season, Mourinho has been increasingly tetchy of late.
  — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Her new novel, Spent, tells the story of one Alison Bechdel, a tetchy lesbian cartoonist running a pygmy-goat sanctuary in Vermont who is trying to write a memoir about the corrupting influence of money.
  — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 16 June 2025
• The venerable brand has, for well over a century, been a producer of debonair, distinctly British, sport/luxury cars, known mainly for startling good looks and an attitude that is more sophisticated and less tetchy than its Italian rivals.
  — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2025
• Hallmarks of the best Halloween travel destinations usually entail a moody fall landscape, local legends that involve a tetchy ghost, vampire, or other variety of ominous being, and themed activities like pumpkin patches and cemetery tours.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
• Boos rang around an increasingly tetchy Goodison at the end of Saturday’s 0-0 draw against Brentford, a game in which Everton had a player advantage for 56 minutes including additional time but could not muster enough quality to win.
  — Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024