Sample sentences for IRASCIBLE

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Definition

easily angered

She has an irascible nature at the best of times, but be especially careful to avoid her early in the morning.

irascible = easily angered

irascible = easily angered

His wounds only made him more irascible; the hands gave him a wide berth.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove

irascible = easily angered

To those who appreciate the extraordinary irascibility of the Invisible Man, the rest of the encounter will be easy to imagine.
H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man

irascibility = short temper (tendency to anger easily)

"What does he come here cheeking us for, then?" cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament.
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times

irascible = easily angered

The case before the jury involved an irascible gentleman who lived next door to a filling station.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

irascible = easily angered

Although he'd contributed to the recruiting effort to find new players, at the practices following tryouts he was taciturn and irascible.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United

irascible = easily angered

It is entirely different from the usual irascible beefing he delights in and which no one takes seriously.
Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh

irascible = easily angered

He was irascible, often profane, and constantly ruffled the smooth feathers of the hidebound Navy, but like Patton, he was a winner.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers

irascible = easily angered

Blomkvist was not ordinarily impressed by celebrity, but Magnusson had such a distinctive appearance and was so familiar from his roles, in particular for playing the irascible but honest Inspector Frisk in a wildly popular TV series.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

irascible = easily angered

irascible = angry

did the scurrying freaks, the Illustrated Marvel, bear the foreheads of the Irascible, the Cruel, the Covetous, the mouths of the Lewd and Untruthful?
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

irascible = easily angered

His father paused and looked back - the harsh level stare beneath the shaggy, graying, irascible brows.
William Faulkner -- Barn Burning

irascible = easily angered

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.
David Baldacci -- Wish You Well

irascible = easily angered

"But professor," our irascible companion went on, "can't you see that we could die of hunger in this iron cage?"
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

irascible = easily angered

And presumably that was long enough for this irascible fellow to give himself a phosphorescent makeover.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge

irascible = easily angered

"Now, Huntingdon," exclaimed his irascible friend, "I will not have you sitting there and laughing like an idiot."
Bronte, Anne -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
His notes were handed to me now—irascible, helpful.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
"The deuce take Old Maid Pyncheon!" muttered the irascible housewife.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
Something in Conway's voice, and still more in his succeeding silence, roused the youth to irascibility.
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon

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