What's the difference between feisty and tetchy?

Feisty


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The movie, adapted from Mandela's autobiography, shows Madikizela-Mandela as a feisty young woman who falls in love with the struggle activist, only to be left to raise their children alone when he is arrested and jailed.
  • (2) I have met brave, feisty writers, publishers and translators here in Turkey who will take on this challenge and not be intimidated, but how many others will decide that this is not a risk that they want or are able to take?"
  • (3) She isn't the first wannabe pop girl with intimations of "edge" and "darkness" in her songs to emerge this year , although she might be the last (hello, it's November), but the question is: does she bring anything new to the feisty, lusty-voiced electro-girl genre?
  • (4) But axing Hazel Blears, the feisty communities secretary, would be more difficult.
  • (5) They weren’t exactly fashionable, but they were feisty, they were sexy – and I think it related to the fabric of the city.
  • (6) In fact, for feisty, you have drink one of those pints with a submerged shot glass.
  • (7) They say you cannot please everyone, but referee Michael Oliver succeeded in pleasing neither Roberto Martínez nor Garry Monk in this feisty encounter which belied the mid-table comfort Everton and Swansea currently enjoy.
  • (8) Goodness knows how spiky things might have turned had Cheick Tioté, Pardew’s feisty Ivorian midfield enforcer, not been injured.
  • (9) A few minutes around the corner is ORSO , a 2014 coffee “laboratory” serving feisty arabica and robusta from around the globe.
  • (10) And it was not long before she and feisty Hefina in a tour de force performance became spokeswomen for their community.
  • (11) When I'd met Zaria, just before her operation, I was struck by the energy of this funny, feisty, beautiful young medical student with a tattoo and bundles of raven hair.
  • (12) In a wide-ranging interview in Broadcasting House the day after the review was announced, a feisty director general admits that the recommendations, to be delivered early next year, are likely to lead to "narrower services".
  • (13) It described Gordon as feisty and outspoken but often "highly dependent upon the men in her life".
  • (14) As the train clatters downtown, I allow myself to feel feisty, and just a little bit fond.
  • (15) A Forsa survey shows that the SPD has gained three points from a week earlier to 29% after the selection of the feisty, plain-speaking 65-year-old.
  • (16) A feisty and inspiring young head was resolutely tackling the school's problems to give his pupils a better chance.
  • (17) McCain cracked jokes and gave a feisty performance as he endorsed Romney.
  • (18) Just think of the hoardings: feisty women with attitude, sporting magnificent fingernails and vaguely dressed as St Mary Magdalene, are seen tearing at Pontius Pilate’s face – someone like Nigel Havers, looking saucy.” Christ’s Jerusalem Monopoly “My kids have a Star Wars one,” the permanent secretary tells a minister irritably.
  • (19) And there was this feisty meeting with Brazil in 1970.
  • (20) He also writes a feisty blog for the Financial Times - a recent example was headed "Confessions of a crass Keynesian".

Tetchy


Definition:

  • (a.) See Techy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a marathon of tetchy bilateral talks and barbed plenary speeches, the Chinese premier – who refused to enter the negotiations directly – flew back to Beijing without any public comment.
  • (2) It didn't look as if that was quite how he remembered it, but May pressed on, becoming ever more tetchy.
  • (3) Simon Walters, the political editor of the Mail on Sunday and co-author of the 17 June story, will appear before Leveson on Monday afternoon, raising the prospect of tetchy exchanges with the judge.
  • (4) And yet Dame Eileen's tetchy objection that casting middle-aged men as girls is not authentic kept coming to me as I braved the heat and seats at the Wanamaker.
  • (5) They are better than that team out there today, that’s the problem.” But a tetchy Van Gaal was in no mood to tolerate the opinions of a successful former generation.
  • (6) In a tetchy BBC Question Time encounter with Ukip’s Nigel Farage , it was Brand who produced the zinger, with the jibe that his opponent was “a pound-shop Enoch Powell ”.
  • (7) Hunt was emollient and calm, becoming tetchy only when challenged over the issue of GP contracts.
  • (8) The architect Zaha Hadid cut short a tetchy BBC radio interview to mark her being awarded the 2016 Riba Royal Gold Medal after mounting an angry defence of her Qatar World Cup stadium and Tokyo Olympic stadium projects.
  • (9) As the world's second- and third-biggest oil consumers, they are also rivals for energy, which has led to tetchy rows over a Siberian oil pipeline and gas fields in the South China Sea.
  • (10) But it became a rambling, often tetchy performance from Putin, repeatedly scolding journalists for failing to understand him, or for leaving their mobile phones on.
  • (11) Abbott is already trying to calm his friends on the right, tetchy at Turnbull’s profile and Abbott’s continuing low poll ratings.
  • (12) It's a fair enough decision I guess, but this hasn't been a tetchy game, I wonder whether there was a need to get the cards out there.
  • (13) But in one of a number of tetchy exchanges between the pair, Hodge declared herself “very sceptical about that”.
  • (14) In increasingly tetchy exchange, Myners says that the Co-op was paying a dividend worth £1bn in today's money.
  • (15) The media got into crisis mode, naturally, but we were never really tetchy: there was no hunt for Those Responsible, as one suspects there will be if things get really dry this time around.
  • (16) There was the truculent Ray Donovan, featuring Jon Voight; the truculent Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman as an absurdly tetchy racetrack gambler and gangster, involving much mumbling in half-lit rooms; and there was the truculent Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer as a corrupt Chicago mayor, which never quite escaped the stigma of expecting Niles Crane to burst into the room in a flap about missing his appointment to visit the newly opened downtown doll museum.
  • (17) New York Republican Lee Zeldin said: “There is another alternative other than war; it’s a better deal ... America got played like a five string quartet.” Like a Senate version last week , the lengthy hearing got increasingly tetchy, with both sides frequently interrupting each other, and Kerry – who entered on crutches after breaking his leg cycling – was forced to stand and stretch at times.
  • (18) Mantel added: “As for ex-politicians who have weighed in: the same tetchy commentators who made fools of themselves when my stories were first published have been persuaded to do it again.
  • (19) They - and Labour - should also worry about a feeling that can be picked up all over this constituency: that the tetchy disconnection from politics that went nuclear with the expenses crisis, was probably perpetuated by the very public fall of Chris Huhne, and shows no signs of going away, least of all round here.
  • (20) The chief executive, who has faced a campaign from some newspapers to step down following the publication of the report into serious failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust , endured a long, tetchy grilling two weeks ago from the Commons health committee.