Thesaurus / irritable

irritable

How to use irritable in a sentence

Normally even-keeled, he was irritable and short-tempered, including with her son — and Huddleston’s soon-to-be stepson — Allan Osborn.

As the day approached, my daughter grew more and more irritable.

He became irritable, distressed, and anxious—struggled hard to get the needful sum together, struggled and strove; but failed.

As, during the whole pepper-harvest, they feed wholly on this stimulant, they become exceedingly irritable.

There was also a moral reaction, and the boy became capricious, irritable, and unlike his former self.

There are few greater annoyances of life than an irritable woman, rendered doubly morose by the infirmities of years.

The Colonel, who was suffering from an attack of rheumatic gout, was more irritable than usual.

THE CROMPTONSMARY J. HOLMES

He drove with a sort of irritable feverishness, until Henri leaned over and touched him on the shoulder.

It was Tanqueray who kept on looking at him with clear, contemplative eyes under brows no longer irritable.

Thank you: now go and forget every cross word I have said to you,—I am out of sorts, and nervous, and irritable.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985