irritable
Example Sentences
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But the conservative impulse and the reactionary impulse do not, with some isolated and some ecclesiastical exceptions, express themselves in ideas but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.
From Salon
"Some parents found their children, over the vacation, had become irritable, restless and screamed when sleeping, and even cried out with leg cramps," he said.
From BBC
Medical categories like fibromyalgia and irritable bowel symptom make pain sound as though it's related to something tangible, except that all too often, it's "just" pain.
From Salon
Life has taken several surreal turns for Maniscalco — a rubbery, lovably irritable stand-up comedian — who turns 50 in July.
From Los Angeles Times
Binnig is known among her colleagues as the “queen of irritable parents,” because she is empathetic with parents and stays calm when they are anxious, unhappy or angry.
From New York Times
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