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irascible
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  • The case before the jury involved an irascible gentleman who lived next door to a filling station.  (source)
    irascible = easily angered
  • His wounds only made him more irascible; the hands gave him a wide berth.  (source)
  • did the scurrying freaks, the Illustrated Marvel, bear the foreheads of the Irascible, the Cruel, the Covetous, the mouths of the Lewd and Untruthful?  (source)
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  • He was irascible, often profane, and constantly ruffled the smooth feathers of the hidebound Navy, but like Patton, he was a winner.  (source)
    irascible = easily angered
  • To those who appreciate the extraordinary irascibility of the Invisible Man, the rest of the encounter will be easy to imagine.  (source)
    irascibility = short temper (tendency to anger easily)
  • He cleared his throat and shifted irascibly in his chair.†  (source)
  • Although he'd contributed to the recruiting effort to find new players, at the practices following tryouts he was taciturn and irascible.  (source)
    irascible = easily angered
  • Now Burnham faced the prospect of having to go alone to meet these legendary architects—one of them, Hunt, a man also of legendary irascibility.†  (source)
  • There wasn't the slightest possible chance that they could go to the Lighthouse tomorrow, Mr. Ramsay snapped out irascibly.†  (source)
  • And presumably that was long enough for this irascible fellow to give himself a phosphorescent makeover.  (source)
  • Something in Conway's voice, and still more in his succeeding silence, roused the youth to irascibility.†  (source)
  • 'Come on, Washington,' the corpulent colonel broke in irascibly.†  (source)
  • Then I look to the sky and follow the jagged flight of irascible black crows, and then settle upon a solitary hawk tacked against a sky of cobalt blue.  (source)
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