irascibility Betydning & definition

Eksempler på irascibility

• 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.