Quickly aroused to anger.
Trait of being being easily angered or frustrated.
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Examples for "irascible "
Examples for "irascible "
1 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.
4 Therefore there is an irascible and a concupiscible appetite in the angels.
5 Similarly, fortitude regulates daring and fear, which reside in the irascible part.
1 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?
4 Lord M. Why now, Bob., thou art more choleric than the Colonel.
5 This time, Hillary is trying to fend off a choleric 74-year-old democratic socialist.
1 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.
4 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!
1 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.
5 I always liked it better than the dragon: It wasn't so hot-tempered .
1 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.
1 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.
6 Lord Vermeer was a competent, forceful man, a little quick - tempered and autocratic.
7 He is a fine, God- fearing man, but somewhat quick - tempered and dictatorial.
8 They are, however, very quick - tempered . As he spoke, the liquid began to slosh.
9 Everybody in Thagaste knew the quick - tempered and violent character of Patricius.
10 Proud, hot-headed, quick - tempered , he was often in trouble, more than once in prison.
11 She had honestly loved and respected the warm-hearted, quick - tempered old lady.
12 A quick - tempered , revengeful lot were the men of those Border clans.
13 Speak as a busy, quick - tempered old man in his disordered office.
14 I am by nature quick - tempered , but I try to overcome it by study.
15 Irishmen are very quick - tempered , and I see I have ruffled this one somewhat.
16 The quick - tempered worker, Peevish Peggy, looked slyly over her shoulder and nodded slightly.
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