tetchy
She rang down to the reception, and asked tetchily whether she had been given the correct room number.
Tetchily, the Duke ordered that Grant be protected.
He was a militant antismoker, sighing tetchily and throwing open the windows when visitors lit up, even when it was snowing outside.
"Oh never mind," he said tetchily as no one in the audience responded to his dig.
"Give me a break," he responded, tetchily.

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
grouchiness
grouchy
grumpily
grumpiness
grumpy
pettish
pettishly
petulance
petulancy
petulant
stroppy
surlily
surliness
testily
testiness