Word: tetchiest
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Unfortunately, many complain that with all the attention focused on the "fuzzies" and the "tetchiest," those interested in the performing and the visual arts are virtually ignored. These students are left to take care of themselves; something they seem to do rather well with student musicals, recitals and readings always happening on campus...
...because they have learned first to understand men-and to know what a woman must contend with in her particular time and society. Author Louis Kronenberger, TIME'S theater critic and an authority on 18th century Britain, knows that Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was one of the toughest, tetchiest, worldliest women of her time-but also that the time itself was one of treachery and double-dealing, an age in which England was "almost plagued with brilliance, and swollen with ambition." It was the era of Swift, Defoe, Newton, Wren, Pope -but it was equally an era of savage...
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