as in irritable
easily irritated or annoyed
forced to endure a memorably irascible boss on her first job after college
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In a career that flourished well into her 80s, Smith played the stern yet compassionate Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter series and the irascible Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in Downton Abbey.
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Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his irascible right-hand man, Harry Hopkins, to London, the Churchills launched a charm offensive in which Pamela was front and center.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
By the mid-1990s, Mugabe had become an irascible dictator, brooking no opposition, contemptuous of the law and human rights, and indifferent to the incompetence and corruption around him.
—Martin Meredith, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
Kurosawa hadn’t intended for an insane explosion of blood to spout from Muroto’s torso, especially not at the end of what had been a largely bloodless drunken-master-style farce in which a rascally, irascible ronin helps a litter of samurai puppies get their act together.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his irascible right-hand man, Harry Hopkins, to London, the Churchills launched a charm offensive in which Pamela was front and center.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
By the mid-1990s, Mugabe had become an irascible dictator, brooking no opposition, contemptuous of the law and human rights, and indifferent to the incompetence and corruption around him.
—Martin Meredith, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
Kurosawa hadn’t intended for an insane explosion of blood to spout from Muroto’s torso, especially not at the end of what had been a largely bloodless drunken-master-style farce in which a rascally, irascible ronin helps a litter of samurai puppies get their act together.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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“Irascible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irascible. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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