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Chronic stress increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, irritable bowel disease, obesity, depression, asthma, arthritis, autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, neurological disorders and obesity.
THEY DON’T COME AS PILLS, BUT TRY THESE 6 UNDER-PRESCRIBED LIFESTYLE MEDICINES FOR A BETTER, LONGER LIFELGBTQ-EDITORDECEMBER 23, 2021NO STRAIGHT NEWSNormally even-keeled, he was irritable and short-tempered, including with her son — and Huddleston’s soon-to-be stepson — Allan Osborn.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE TOWERS: FIVE LIVES AND A WORLD TRANSFORMEDJOBY WARRICK, SOUAD MEKHENNETSEPTEMBER 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAs the day approached, my daughter grew more and more irritable.
KIDS ARE FEELING ANXIETY ABOUT A ‘RETURN TO NORMAL’MELINDA WENNER MOYERJUNE 24, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHe became irritable, distressed, and anxious—struggled hard to get the needful sum together, struggled and strove; but failed.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSAs, during the whole pepper-harvest, they feed wholly on this stimulant, they become exceedingly irritable.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSThere was also a moral reaction, and the boy became capricious, irritable, and unlike his former self.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKYThere are few greater annoyances of life than an irritable woman, rendered doubly morose by the infirmities of years.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTThe Colonel, who was suffering from an attack of rheumatic gout, was more irritable than usual.
THE CROMPTONSMARY J. HOLMESHe drove with a sort of irritable feverishness, until Henri leaned over and touched him on the shoulder.
THE AMAZING INTERLUDEMARY ROBERTS RINEHARTIt was Tanqueray who kept on looking at him with clear, contemplative eyes under brows no longer irritable.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIRWORDS RELATED TO IRRITABLE
- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cranky
- cross
- dolorous
- dour
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- melancholy
- moody
- moping
- mournful
- perverse
- perversive
- sad
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- taciturn
- testy
- troubled
- ugly
- afraid
- agitated
- annoyed
- apprehensive
- basket case
- bothered
- concerned
- distressed
- disturbed
- edgy
- excitable
- fidgety
- fitful
- flustered
- fussy
- hesitant
- high-strung
- hysterical
- irritable
- jittery
- jumpy
- nervy
- neurotic
- on edge
- overwrought
- querulous
- restive
- ruffled
- sensitive
- shaky
- shrinking
- shy
- skittish
- snappish
- solicitous
- spooked
- taut
- tense
- timid
- timorous
- troubled
- twitchy
- uneasy
- unrestful
- unstrung
- upset
- uptight
- volatile
- weak
- wired
- worried
- abnormal
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- capricious
- contradictory
- contrary
- contumacious
- corrupt
- crabby
- cross
- degenerate
- delinquent
- depraved
- deviant
- disobedient
- dogged
- erring
- fractious
- hard-nosed
- headstrong
- intractable
- intransigent
- irritable
- miscreant
- mulish
- nefarious
- obdurate
- obstinate
- petulant
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- refractory
- rotten
- self-willed
- spiteful
- stubborn
- unhealthy
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unyielding
- villainous
- wayward
- wicked
- willful
- aggressive
- antagonistic
- argumentative
- bellicose
- brawling
- cantankerous
- chip on shoulder
- choleric
- combative
- contentious
- defiant
- disputatious
- have a bone to pick
- hot-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- itching to fight
- militant
- petulant
- pushing
- pushy
- quarrelsome
- ready to fight
- rebellious
- salty
- scrappy
- self-assertive
- truculent
- warlike
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