Easily irritated or annoyed.
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Examples for "irritable"
Examples for "irritable"
1The point is, that on this particular day the lieutenant was irritable.
2Nivea's balm will soothe irritable skin and prevent future flare-ups from occurring.
3But I was in a state of mind bordering on the irritable.
4In his perplexity and sorrow, the poor colonel was irritable and unjust.
5Her father is crippled and querulous; indeed he is often exceedingly irritable.
1Emphasising the feel good factor in Julian's petulant possessiveness is surely misguided.
2Yvonne felt petulant toward these people she had liked only minutes before.
3Lem knew he sounded petulant, but he also knew he was right.
4Corona was silent; it was her only weapon when he became petulant.
5No longer petulant or impatient, he appeared sunk in the deepest despondency.
1His methods, once dismissed as cranky and left-field are now accepted practice.
2Though there could be a million explanations, that, too, made me cranky.
3She's getting used to the gravity, but the drugs make her cranky.
4He's cranky as a bear with toothache when we're still setting up.
5I was cranky thinking about what I was about to see, Lego.
1So were the lieutenant and the peevish damsels in his Battleston car.
2I am growing peevish-andtired; and will leave off writing for to-day.
3We sat in the smoking-car, Hawkins by this time ill and peevish.
4He that refused a pipe in company was accounted peevish and unsociable.
5Walking towards the door, Alfred poured forth a torrent of peevish abuse:
1Such talk usually generates fractious debate between privacy hawks and security hounds.
2It's a kind of utopian oasis in the fractious post-civil war days.
3The public mood is now more fractious and hostile to established politics.
4The fractious atmosphere of British society is always lurking in the background.
5The incident adds another complication to fractious ties between the two countries.
1Partial sightings, fragmentary reports, scratchy CCTV images... What are you doing here?'
2I remember the little scratchy blot from the pen on the envelope.
3Though the voice was thin and scratchy, the words were clearly audible.
4I feel that when I do that myself I get really scratchy.
5But a hot, scratchy rope knotted around her heart, pulling her forward.
1It has been an inevitably tetchy beginning to the new Dáil term.
2On the Monday night he was a bit tetchy, a bit tired.
3The tetchy Brit thawed out after a couple of bottles of wine.
4A few tetchy exchanges between US and Colombian players in the aftermath.
5Richard Eyre, a nice guy, confined himself to the odd tetchy postcard.
1Consider the pettish, they are angry with their best and dearest friends.
2He turned on Sam with the pettish anger of the mild man.
3Frank thrust out one hand and gave the animal a pettish push.
4He was a bit pettish when he snapped his check book shut.
5And he added with pettish emphasis, They're all alike, gentle and simple.
1There's also a Continental food and craft market if you get peckish.
2A peckish Saturn fresh run out of young, the town devours itself.
3A fear rises up within him: he is starting to feel peckish.
4Having survived your morning bath, you may be feeling a little peckish.
5And with someone who closed their eyes and someone who was peckish.
1You are the third techy audience that I have given this to.
2BP Valenzuela's sweet-voiced and loopy, techy pop music is far from basic.
3Climb thin cracks and a techy face, with stunning views of Mt.
4So it's just a techy way of lighting the menu of our game.
5Among the techy outfitting was a defibrillator and cooler-chest for donor organ transport.
1Drummer had started crying, a nettlesome sound, and he wouldn't be pacified.
2The most nettlesome issues for industry are security and accounting.
3The timing involved in selling it, though, can be nettlesome.
4A former senior executive at one of the two companies also found the regulations nettlesome.
5This leads us to the nettlesome subject of authenticity.
1The General began to turn a little testy as the constable finished.
2She wasn't quite sure why she had been so testy with him.
3Mr. Merrick left the office in a rather humbled and testy mood.
4The fact that Tobe obviously recognized them only made him more testy.
5There was real feeling in the testy old lady's face and voice.
6The testy lead has added a big deposit to my Fear Reservoir.
7Cosby arrived; a testy, disagreeable man who loved money above everything else.
8She could not believe Milly meant to take her testy remark seriously.
9Her father was a testy old country gentleman, very irritable and obstinate.
10At first the man was testy, he did not seem to understand.
11The somewhat testy answer is: we write for whoever will read our work.
12Tax and jobs spark testy exchanges in the latest leaders' debate.
13His agency's relations with Iran have become testy in recent months.
14So why was I feeling so testy with him these days?
15Yet the Fed's relationship with Congress has only grown more testy.
16A run-in with a testy prosecutor concerning my report on his homicide victim.
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