irascible

How To Use irascible In A Sentence

• Clearly you are inter alia, boorish, emulous, elitist and irascible, but none of us is perfect! Times, Sunday Times
• An irascible character who has rubbed up investors and politicians the wrong way, he has nonetheless been regarded as an effective chief executive. Times, Sunday Times
• But it holds the chief and highest power, as mese to hypate, in respect of the concupiscent; as mese to nete, in respect of the irascible; insomuch as it depresses and heightens, — and in fine makes a harmony, — by abating what is too much and by not suffering them to flatten and grow dull. Essays and Miscellanies
• From Russia to Tibet, Egypt to America, Tintin travelled -- accompanied by his faithful dog Snowy and the irascible Captain Haddock - to solve crimes and become an early champion of the rights of local indigenous people in 23 books published from 1929 onwards. Unlikely Travel Guide: Can A Comic Inspire Travel?
• Our common historical portrait of him consists mostly of negative assertions that he was irascible, uncivil, and secretive.
• At the very same time, he was also seen as deeply irascible: thin-skinned, emotionally volatile, easily provoked, quick to take offense.
• What happened next led to a company boss pleading guilty to three charges after was provoked into what his solicitor Steven Culleton called ‘an irascible rage.’
• He could also be irascible, most especially about unjust or unfair behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
• It transpires that this rather dour, irascible man was quite a showman when it came to telling a story. The Times Literary Supplement
• He was a famously difficult and irascible man, some might even have characterized as mad, but was unfailingly courteous, warm and hospitable towards me.