Adjective : an irascible old man. ,an irascible response. From Dictionary.com.
Cxiu sur la sxipeto ridetis, cxar la koleremo ( "irascibility") estas cxiam amuza. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference
I'm a fan of irascibility myself, so I thank you for this. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: NEWS IN ANCIENT GREEK.] Reference
I'm not sure this thread ameliorates the impression of irascibility. From Wordnik.com. [Would you trust a law professor to be President?] Reference
The team went stir-crazy, which contributed to its public irascibility. From Wordnik.com. [Fresh Legs] Reference
Further, the irascibility which had come with advancing years still remained. From Wordnik.com. [THE REJUVENATION OF MAJOR RATHBONE] Reference
I like old Umm Hikma, with her qat-chewer's irascibility and her blacksmithish arms. From Wordnik.com. [Special!! Online Story from the Clockwork Phoenix 2 Anthology, edited by Mike Allen: Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela by Saladin Ahmed] Reference
It was this constant urging, coupled with irascibility and energy, for three long hours. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie] Reference
As expected, McCain is more passionate, but he never crossed the line into irascibility. From Wordnik.com. [Live-blogging the big debate.] Reference
Clare was not trying to soothe the old lady, but rather seemed to enjoy her irascibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
But for all the irascibility of the dispute, this was in effect an argument over details. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog: November 2006 Archives] Reference
Argentines have no peers in their irascibility and the language they use to express it, he says. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina Answers] Reference
He´s the guy you can speak your mind to, who gets your humor, and who withstands your irascibility. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Jack Nicholson] Reference
Strangely, it is often the unhappiness of one that arouses an equal degree of irascibility in the other. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
I repeated, with a degree of irascibility that roused her to lift her eyes and look me steadily in the face. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall] Reference
He had suffered already from Hornblower's irascibility — unplanned, during these last days, but lucky now. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
Among the members of the family there is a strong resemblance, and streaks of irascibility and frugality too. From Wordnik.com. [Fort Sumner] Reference
All men have appetites, some have both appetites and irascibility, and a few have these two faculties plus reason. From Wordnik.com. [MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM] Reference
Hence it is the surest of all cures for excessive irascibility, and has been found to have a most beneficial effect upon. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference
Jerry Bracey was indeed irascible, but overshadowing that irascibility was an integrity and brilliance without parallel. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Ohanian: Tribute to Jerry Bracey -- Blogger and Friend] Reference
They spoke of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told stories of his kindness and irascibility. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
I mean such conditions as insanity, irascibility, and so on: for people are said to be mad or irascible in virtue of these. From Wordnik.com. [Categoriae. English] Reference
Elevating irascibility to an art-form, I've made it a personal crusade to flame such net. idiots on general principles alone. From Wordnik.com. [Clandestine-Chemistry]
To those who appreciate the extraordinary irascibility of the Invisible Man, the rest of the encounter will be easy to imagine. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
His irascibility was so far beyond belief that I will tell you nothing about it; you will have the opportunity of judging of it. From Wordnik.com. [Another Study of a Woman] Reference
But Vronsky was startled and annoyed by the nervous irascibility with which Golenishtchev talked of the subject that engrossed him. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
In the TV series currently running on BBC, Little John is the lieutenant but he has a sergeant's irascibility and habit of arguing. From Wordnik.com. [Lieutenants, sergeants, squires, free-lances, and the hero-king] Reference
But Pope's irascibility prevailed, and he resolved to tell the whole. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference
Shields was a man of inordinate vanity and a corresponding irascibility. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01] Reference
Times notes his irascibility and brusqueness, but that was a sometime affair. From Wordnik.com. [Forbes.com: News] Reference
He conceived of no temptation to his repressed irascibility save the political. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
"That story ain't proved yet!" returned his grandmother, with much irascibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Canaan] Reference
Stevens wasn't delivering this speech just to maintain his irascibility quotient (IQ). From Wordnik.com. [ReadWriteWeb] Reference
'Ungainly integrity' and 'headlong irascibility' wrought the same results for the ex-dispenser as for the. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
He was not a pleasant companion for his office force during those days; his irascibility seemed to increase. From Wordnik.com. [The Landloper] Reference
He gave way to an irascibility which he tried to check, and to ask with indifference, "Why did he come back?". From Wordnik.com. [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference
The root of the disagreement wasn't unusual irascibility or personality problems on either side, as Boyd makes clear. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
He readily recognized his infirmity, and confessed himself unable to accommodate his irascibility to the "humores" of the inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
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