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irascibility
noun as in temper
Strong matches
Example Sentences
For all his egotism and irascibility, Churchill was a good man as well as a great one.
Yet despite his engaging irascibility, Mamoon never quite emerges as a character in his own right.
Pope was a member of the same coffee house club for a year, but his inborn irascibility eventually led him to drop out of it.
The mental state is characterised at once by great indifference and undue irascibility.
Solicitor-General Hagerman spoke in a similar strain, but with less of irascibility.
I found him a man of extreme irascibility without adequate cause; hasty in action in hazardous cases to a degree that alarmed me.
He gave way to an irascibility which he tried to check, and to ask with indifference, "Why did he come back?"
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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