irascibility

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Examples of irascibility

  • He had a certain irascibility, which led to friction with those he did not admire.

  • What was really shyness, others saw as rudeness and irascibility.

  • "Why are you here?" she said with unusual 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.

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