tetchy

I am not upset if he was a little tetchy.

In a tetchy exchange, the officials insisted that the response had been swift and effective and that it was "untrue and insulting" to criticise.

Responding to the committee's conservative president who had just rebuked him in a tetchy opening to the hearing, Sanchez fired back that "I think this is a circus."

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday told a tetchy Senate committee hearing into a corruption scandal that has rocked his minority leftist government that the probe was "a circus".

It was the most tetchy round table so far, as the pressure and frustration mounted.