There has been a great deal of heat generated, some excitement, irascibility and the like.
This variation of mood may occur in the tropics or under conditions which lead to a certain irascibility on the part of the officer who makes the charge.
In contrast, an excessive tendency or vice concerning anger would be irascibility or quickness to anger.
His prose style, famously cranky and occasionally savage, helped cement an air of irascibility.
It was said that he had a tendency for irascibility, that some of his mountaineering contemporaries said decreased with altitude.
His superiors still considered him of middling ability, and the impression of melancholy and irascibility persisted.
Afterwards he spent time among those friends who could tolerate his irascibility, the number of whom dwindled as a result of his sometimes outrageous behaviour.
From about the age of forty he began to suffer problems with his hearing, eventually becoming profoundly deaf, an affliction which tended to increase his isolation and irascibility.
