How To Use Irascibility In A Sentence

  • He was also an endearingly tetchy coot whose prejudices, passions, and irascibility remained uncompromised over time.
  • The nastiness of these exchanges can be partially explained by the irascibility of some of the personalities involved, but it also reflected fundamental disagreements about methods and goals.
  • His nightmares, insomnia, poor memory, fatigue, and irascibility became worse, and he developed headaches, musculoskeletal aches, and dyspepsia.
  • Charlotte Hayes was around Revel's age, and was turning away from the irascibility of her youth into the cantankerousness of middle age. Fishers of Hope
  • There are some natural touches of character about him, such as his mixture of irascibility and placability, and his curious affection for Sancho together with his impatience of the squire's loquacity and impertinence; but in the main, apart from his craze, he is little more than a thoughtful, cultured gentleman, with instinctive good taste and a great deal of shrewdness and originality of mind. Don Quixote
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  • The only noticeable change was in his growing irascibility with the passing years.
  • Wendy is more pragmatic, gently chiding staff who do not serve customers quickly enough, and acting as an emollient to those whose egos have been bruised by her father's irascibility.
  • She is at once an intellectual giant, the personification of hostile irascibility, and a kind and gentle great-grandmother.
  • The stress of Smith's job, especially dealing with the rival egos of Eisenhower's army group and army commanders — to say nothing of the constant political interference from Churchill — contributed to his irascibility and ulcers. Eisenhower's Pit Bull
  • Now long-continued anger, and frequent giving way to it, produces an evil disposition of soul, which people call irascibility, and which ends in passionateness, bitterness, and peevishness, whenever the mind becomes sore and vexed at trifles and querulous at everyday occurrences, like iron thin and beaten out too fine. Plutarch's Morals
  • Wyatt liked the city manager, his tiredness and efficiency and harmless irascibility.
  • Afterwards he spent time among those friends who could tolerate his irascibility, the number of whom dwindled as a result of his sometimes outrageous behavior. William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • Drusus, despite certain defects, such as irascibility and a marked fondness for pleasure, gave evidence that he possessed the requisite qualities of a statesman -- firmness, sound judgment, and energy. The Women of the Caesars
  • Cxiu sur la sxipeto ridetis, cxar la koleremo ( "irascibility") estas cxiam amuza. A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
  • Now long-continued anger, and frequent giving way to it, produces an evil disposition of soul, which people call irascibility, and which ends in passionateness, bitterness, and peevishness, whenever the mind becomes sore and vexed at trifles and querulous at everyday occurrences, like iron thin and beaten out too fine. Plutarch's Morals
  • Usually we can count on the irascible Democratic Congressman Jim Moran (VA-8) for entertainment whenever he decides to open his mouth, but this time the irascibility was a tag-team effort with his wife LuAnn Bennett who both caused a scene on Inauguration Day at the Capitol. Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
  • Drusus, despite certain defects, such as irascibility and a marked fondness for pleasure, gave evidence that he possessed the requisite qualities of a statesman ” firmness, sound judgment, and energy. The Women of the Caesars
  • The chairman has built a hugely effective public persona built on irascibility.
  • The two young gentlemen, having seen their blooming charges safely within the door of the Alms-House, and vainly endeavored to look through the keyhole at them going up-stairs, scuffle away together with that sensation of blended imbecility and irascibility which is equally characteristic of callow youth and inexperienced Thomas Cats when retiring together from the society of female friends who seem to be still on the fence as regards their ultimate preferences. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870
  • Although the model ternary compositions we study are too simple to completely represent a biological membrane, we often find irascibility transitions close to physiological temperatures.

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