The latter, however, was in an irritable mood, and he answered sharply.

And in a sleepless, burnt-out, irritable mood, I definitely can't cope with it.

Napoleon, in an angry and irritable mood, is dictating to Bourrienne.

He knew what to expect from the irritable mood into which recent events appeared to have thrown his master.

The king was in a feverish, irritable mood all that evening, but he made his plans nevertheless with infinite cunning.

No man likes to be dogged, and in the very irritable mood in which I then was the sight of Mdlle.

I could see, indeed, that he was in a strange and irritable mood, for the failure of our search oppressed him.

Presently the road took a turn and a sight was revealed that did not tend to improve his already irritable mood.

He had just finished his breakfast, and was glancing over the newspaper in a dull and irritable mood, when Keene himself arrived.

He had been crossed by the irritable mood of one of the partners; he was now excessively annoyed by the good-humor of another.

Upon drinking the pot's contents, Percy no longer sneezed or sniffled, but had nevertheless remained in a rather irritable mood throughout the evening.

At present he was in an irritable mood, and, very unlike his habit, gave scant attention to the affair of which Gammon spoke.

After breakfast Laura found herself in the drawing-room, looking through an open window at the spring green in a very strained and irritable mood.

Conclusion: Although limited by the superficial assessment in this single question on irritability, results do not support expanding adult MDD criteria to include irritable mood.

By supper-time the next evening he was in an irritable mood that made him fairly clutch the special delivery letter out of the postman's hand.

When we politely begged him not to trouble, being in an irritable mood, or assuming it, he told us rudely to mind our own business.