| After a difficult two months, blighted by injuries to her back and thigh, the tall Californian has looked tetchy and out of sorts this week. |
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| He was also an endearingly tetchy coot whose prejudices, passions, and irascibility remained uncompromised over time. |
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| He always seems angry with the world, and often comes over as tetchy in interviews. |
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| He has to balance his new life with the demands of a tetchy father and family life. |
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| Normally chirpy and gregarious, the 49-year-old has become increasingly tetchy in the build-up to the tournament. |
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| That is like a millstone around his neck and one that made him a tad tetchy when the subject was inevitably raised again yesterday. |
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| After three days and nights barricaded into his office, Kristall's managing director was exhausted and just a little tetchy. |
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| The foreground music irritated us just that little bit to the point it makes a calm chap feel tetchy. |
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| Other Amazing Race contestants are tetchy that the couple are there, as the pair find it easier to get favours from strangers because they get recognised. |
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| As the Americans have reinforced understrength British forces in Helmand, relations between the allies have become tetchy. |
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| In the 1970s its bolshie workforce frequently clashed with tetchy managers. |
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| At times the game got a little tetchy but the official simply spoke in a stern fashion to the players rather than displaying cards left right and centre. |
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| However, maybe because he's jetlagged, Hornby is a tad tetchy today. |
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| I'm feeling just a wee bit dehydrated and ever-so-slightly tetchy. |
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| Now that the competition is a straight knockout, supporters yesterday grew increasingly tetchy over Dundee's failure to score and Sartid's gamesmanship. |
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| It was that kind of match, always tetchy, often bad-tempered. |
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| In the north, the Gauls are threatening, the Greeks are grumbling to the east, and Rome's biggest threat, the Carthaginians, are growing tetchy to the south. |
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| When we first speak on the phone Judy seems tired and tetchy. |
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| Those who recall Dimblebum's tetchy encounter with Republican walrus John Bolton during the BBC's 2008 US presidential election coverage may beg to differ. |
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| After a time, there's the tetchy pacing about, the increasingly bilious nibbling, the simultaneous antsiness and flatness as the failure of the day sinks in. |
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| No wonder she also earned a reputation for tetchy ill temper. |
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| But that bizarre, tetchy chat on a rainy Tuesday morning was to be the first hint I had of the boiling rage that blisters and shifts under the surface of the seemingly benign world of the pedal pusher. |
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| Has never faded, my true ding an sich, holdover, throwback, tetchy nihilist a-muzz with love and narcotherapy. |
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| The high standards of the boss are somewhat draconian however and the apprentice's challenge is not made any easier by the slightly crazy, very tetchy band of Exile Cycles employees. |
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| Gone are the tiny tunes and minimalist orchestration: in Dust Lane the tetchy Breton singer delivers post-rock mini symphonies that blend keyboards, saturated guitars and vocals in an astonishing acoustic maelstrom. |
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| Farage was tetchy with the press during the tour and a picture of him with his face in his hands in the back of a car appeared to confirm suspicions that he was struggling with the pace. |
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| Not since Nero Wolfe has a detective of Morse's ratiocinative skills, refined tastes and tetchy temperament held court in such magisterial fashion. |
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| He's also tetchy to the point of rudeness about going over his back story. |
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| Our hart is so narrowly limited that we are strangely altered, and being in this teasty tetchy way, presently we let flye foorth much vnseemelines. |
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| A few people were certainly mildly miffed, or a titchy bit tetchy. |
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