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shirty /ˈʃəːti /adjective (shirtier, shirtiest) British informalBad-tempered or annoyed: she got quite shirty...- He got very shirty, and there were even legal threats.
- Let's briefly savour the delicious irony of a magazine for advertising executives getting shirty because someone has ‘grabbed the money and run’.
- But the most disturbing aspect of his investigation is the way it has taken a celebrity chef to get shirty before anyone seems to have noticed what we are feeding our children.
Derivatives shirtily adverb ...- ‘I thought you'd get on,’ he says, shirtily, ‘I just didn't expect you to be singing duets.’
- When I complain that our allotted 90 minutes for photographs and interview is rapidly diminishing, I'm told shirtily that, despite showing up on the dot, we should have got here sooner.
- The judge said shirtily that ‘there certainly was an intent to find that the incipient competition that they represented was extinguished by the company's anticompetitive conduct.’
shirtiness noun ...- Our response: we realise any further shirtiness is pointless.
- Fortunately, there are various degrees of shirtiness running as sub-themes alongside the more obvious trends.
- We don't have to like each other all the time - any shirtiness just adds to the momentum.
Rhymes Alberti, Bertie, dirty, flirty, thirty |