irascibility

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?"