irritability
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In turn, this can cause poor sleep, irritability and decision fatigue, she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
He described attempting the keto diet as a “near-psychotic event” brought on by sugar withdrawal, joking that giving someone in his position that much irritability could have geopolitical consequences.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
It also fueled his irritability and erratic behavior, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
“He constantly reacts as if he’s under attack, which triggers an irritability he can’t control and doesn’t even want to control,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Yossarian moaned instinctively and screwed his face up with excruciating irritability when Aarfy chortled and asked how he was feeling.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
False pride, constant whining, or insupportable irritabilities gradually force them into a dreary class apart.
From The Living Present by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
His sudden access to wealth, far from allaying the irritabilities of his nature, had increased and exaggerated them all.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
The dim stir of chemical atoms towards the axis of crystal form, the trance-like life of plants, the animal troubled by strange irritabilities, are stages which anticipate consciousness.
From Appreciations, with an Essay on Style by Walter Pater
The little irritabilities which degrade humanity only prolong their mischievous existence, while the surface of life stagnates in calm.
From Blind Love by Wilkie Collins
He recalled irritabilities, small acts and exclamations of impatience, boredom, "blues."
From His Family by Ernest Poole
