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irascible
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synonyms: choleric, acerbic, furibund, acrimonious, ~churlish, ~asperity, ~bellicose ???
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Definition:easily made angry (describing a person)
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"You think you got something to be afraid about?" Doc Daneeka demanded lifting his delicate immaculate dark head up from his chest to gaze at Yossarian irascibly for a moment with lachrymose eyes.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.173 (1961)
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Like some poor devils ashore that happen to known an irascible great man, they make distant unobtrusive salutations to him in the street, lest if they pursued the acquaintance further, they might receive a summary thump for their presumption.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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Mr. B. was an editor. Irascibility was his sole foible, for in fact the obstinacy of which men accused him was anything but his foible, since he justly considered it his forte.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: X-ing a Paragraph (1849)
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that irascible country gentleman, perfectly correct in the conclusions that he had been worried into by life, but wrong in his exasperation against a whole class,
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett).
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