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How to use irascible in a sentence

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Mature students were a rarity and often a target for irascible teachers, so medical school was uncomfortable.
Keen to open up their own bistro, Robin and Vicky enter into a business partnership with her irascible father James.
Ed is voluble, softhearted, irascible, loyal to friends, and drinkative when it comes to single-malts.
But when this self-involvement is threatened, well, then we see how irascible, irritable and bad tempered stoners can be.
An irascible bachelor, he was often vitriolic in his criticism of the work of other artists, and jealous of their successes.
Finally there is the wonderfully irascible Jody who sits spikily in judgement on her hapless friends.
Morgan, an apparently irascible old codger, is quite literally the brains of the outfit.
As a public spokesman for seismology and earthquake hazard mitigation, Richter often showed an irascible personality.
Our common historical portrait of him consists mostly of negative assertions that he was irascible, uncivil, and secretive.
You've got to admit, he's got longevity, a little patience there, even though he's a bit irascible after all these years.
Julie Walters is on unassailable form as an irascible retired actress in a bitter-sweet, very British comedy drama.
I know that she is a poor widow, and that this innkeeper happens to be a very irascible person.
He's nothing if not honest, blunt, irascible, generous, laconic, witty and enigmatic.
Because Papa grew so grouchy and irascible as his health failed, I wondered at times how many people really liked him.
Dunmore was certainly a haughty, irascible man, who made enemies easily and often.
In the TV show, Bruno pointed out to his irascible music teacher, Mr Sharofsky, that modern technology made traditional instruments redundant.
In truth, he often proved an irascible, frustrating curmudgeon at the tribunal but people loved him for it.
Yet he was famously thin-skinned and irascible, as I have good reason to remember, if any criticism became directed at himself.
But the picture drawn by Volkmar Braunbehrens's 1989 biography is of a serious, steady, occasionally irascible man.
His sense of humour was dry, he could be irascible, and he was razor sharp.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And the irascible officer thundered through the door like a jet-propelled tank!
The waiter did not know what it was and the irascible Teuton informed him bluntly that he was a dummkopf.
To any who had formed the idea that Mark Twain was irascible, exacting, and faultfinding, they will perhaps be a revelation.
The father was as bluff and portly and irascible as she was patient and gentle.
The strongest that were found in him, both of the irascible and concupiscible, were under the control of his reason.
Whence the irascible, whence the concupiscible Passions do most arise.
That hiss, faint as it was, irritated the irascible gentleman, and sealed the culprit's fate.
Theophrastus couldn't better have depicted the irascible man.
In a few minutes we had the house congested with dishevelled domestics, irascible doctors, and arbitrary minions of the law.
He pushed his hand through his hair with an irascible gesture.
This concession, however, by no means satisfied the irascible Louis.
As a little girl she had often faced with blazing eyes the irascible licensed victualler in defence of her brother.
He was yellower and grayer, and he was getting testy and irascible.
This did not suit Jo at all, but she accepted the place since nothing better appeared and, to every one's surprise, got on remarkably well with her irascible relative.
So too the poet, in representing men who are irascible or indolent, or have other defects of character, should preserve the type and yet ennoble it.
Hot-headed and impatient at all times, he had been rendered irascible by the fatigues of the journey, and the condition of his feet, which were chafed and sore.
During it expert witness Andy Gray, quite rightly, castigated Arsenal's French international Manu Petit for some irascible Gallic arm-waving with malice aforethought.
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