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He was much more emotional, irascible and difficult, but also intellectually, he was changed.
CONSCIOUSNESS IS JUST A FEELING - ISSUE 98: MINDSTEVE PAULSONMARCH 3, 2021NAUTILUSThese often complained, not only of her pride and reserve, but of her high and irascible temper and vindictive disposition.
PEVERIL OF THE PEAKSIR WALTER SCOTTThere was never seen upon the stage a princess of so wild, irascible, and determined a character as this Clarice.
THE MEMOIRS OF COUNT CARLO GOZZI; VOLUME THE FIRSTCOUNT CARLO GOZZIThe irascible person, ready to take offence at trifles, and in other ways uncertain.
RECOLLECTIONS OF THIRTY-NINE YEARS IN THE ARMYCHARLES ALEXANDER GORDONTo dispositions highly irascible, it is frequently more gratifying to have a subject of complaint than of acknowledgment.
CAMILLAFANNY BURNEYHe is ambitious, irascible, a spoilt child of fortune; the most susceptible and the vainest of men.
MEMOIRS OF THE DUCHESSE DE DINO V.1/3, 1831-1835DOROTHY DUCHESSE DE DINOA moment after the door opened, and in walked the identical irascible old gentleman himself!
DEEP DOWN, A TALE OF THE CORNISH MINESR.M. BALLANTYNEHe was irascible to a great degree; a mosquito or a flea would drive him into a passion.
HUBERT'S WIFEMINNIE MARY LEEMr. David Charles Bell was a very handsome man, but very irascible, and the young people were quite afraid of him.
A PORTRAIT OF OLD GEORGE TOWNGRACE DUNLOP ECKERIt hurt Marie Louise so extravagantly to be hated by these irascible cherubs that her anger vanished in regret.
THE CUP OF FURYRUPERT HUGHESWORDS RELATED TO IRASCIBLE
- affronted
- annoyed
- antagonized
- bitter
- chafed
- choleric
- convulsed
- cross
- displeased
- enraged
- exacerbated
- exasperated
- ferocious
- fierce
- fiery
- fuming
- furious
- galled
- hateful
- heated
- hot
- huffy
- ill-tempered
- impassioned
- incensed
- indignant
- inflamed
- infuriated
- irascible
- irate
- ireful
- irritable
- irritated
- maddened
- nettled
- offended
- outraged
- piqued
- provoked
- raging
- resentful
- riled
- sore
- splenetic
- storming
- sulky
- sullen
- tumultous/tumultuous
- turbulent
- uptight
- vexed
- wrathful
- affronted
- annoyed
- antagonized
- bitter
- chafed
- choleric
- convulsed
- cross
- displeased
- enraged
- exacerbated
- exasperated
- ferocious
- fierce
- fiery
- fuming
- furious
- galled
- hateful
- heated
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- ill-tempered
- impassioned
- incensed
- indignant
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- irascible
- irate
- ireful
- irritable
- irritated
- maddened
- nettled
- offended
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- piqued
- pissed
- pissed off
- provoked
- put out
- raging
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- sore
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- storming
- sulky
- sullen
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- wrathful
- bad-tempered
- bearish
- bloody-minded
- captious
- choleric
- contrary
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- disagreeable
- dour
- grouchy
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-natured
- irascible
- irritable
- morose
- obstinate
- ornery
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- quarrelsome
- snappish
- sour
- stubborn
- testy
- vinegarish
- vinegary
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