Synonyms
Examples for "irascible"
Examples for "irascible"
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In like manner there are three groups in the irascible faculty; viz.
2
But fear is not in the concupiscible, but in the irascible part.
3
She had in her veins the irascible blood of the common people.
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Therefore there is an irascible and a concupiscible appetite in the angels.
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Similarly, fortitude regulates daring and fear, which reside in the irascible part.
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The Judge resembled Major Colfax in but one trait: he was choleric.
2
Edward was choleric and stern in his choler, but judicious and politic.
3
Which of you would not be as choleric in a like affront?
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Lord M. Why now, Bob., thou art more choleric than the Colonel.
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This time, Hillary is trying to fend off a choleric 74-year-old democratic socialist.
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The hotheaded youth was now very close to being angry in earnest.
2
True, he was hotheaded, like all of us, but-tocome to this.
3
He is young, and hotheaded, and he is the emperor, after all.
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And it would take more than this hotheaded punk to stop him.
5
Methinks he has grown less hotheaded after that spell in the Tower!
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And not another word would the hot-tempered gentleman say on the subject.
2
Young, hot-tempered Marq Piper urged a strike west at Casterly Rock instead.
3
It was no sinecure, this educating of the hot-tempered and undisciplined youngster.
4
Harry told all about it to her and to the hot-tempered gentleman.
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I always liked it better than the dragon: It wasn't so hot-tempered.
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A little quick-tempered in handling help; expects too much at the outset.
2
She was a little quick-tempered and impulsive; but she soon recovered herself.
3
Because I am very quick-tempered I want to live with good-tempered people.
4
He was a lieutenant in the duke's body-guard, a quick-tempered, heady chap.
5
You're bound to be quick-tempered with hair of that glorious red shade.
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Count Olaf wasneither interesting nor kind; he was demanding, short-tempered, and bad-smelling.
2
Would suit a large family inclined to be short-tempered in the morning.
3
For the past few days, he'd been short-tempered and moody with Alice-Marie.
4
Aislinn laid her hand on his arm to stop his short-tempered words.
5
And that was when he accidentally bumped into a very short-tempered krogan.
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He would pace restlessly about the common room, agitated and short-tempered with everyone.
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The beavers tolerated the two, but were short-tempered at the best of times.
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As the week wore on he became more and more short-tempered.
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D: Is this the only option you have, to be short-tempered?
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The gathering place was slick with mud, and all of us were short-tempered.
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Her crew had been harried into short-tempered despair as they attempted patchwork repairs.
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She was short-tempered with them both and had evidently been crying.
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Well, I made no contract to love any such plain and short-tempered person.
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Hal's impatience was fighting with his euphoria and making him short-tempered.
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I would find myself short-tempered and stressing out more and more.
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One afternoon he was a trifle short-tempered, but not with me.