edgy

Nervous, apprehensive.

Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge.

On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.

“A few college kids make edgy jokes in a group chat and conservatives are tripping over themselves to denounce and disavow and call for firings and resignations,” Matt Walsh, a right-wing commentator, posted on X.

Irritable.

an edgy temper

Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.

A sculptor's ideas must, I should guess, be somewhat rigid and inflexible, like the materials in which he works. Besides, Nollekens's style was comparatively hard and edgy.