iracund
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- iracundity noun
Etymology
Origin of iracund
1815–25; < Latin īrācundus, equivalent to īrā- ( irate ) + -cundus inclined to (adj. suffix)
Example Sentences
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"By heavens!" exclaimed the iracund mayor, turning red again.
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A fat, just man, he too; probably somewhat iracund; not without troubles in his House.
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And he lodges with old Count Flemming and his clever fashionable Madam,—the diligent but unsuccessful Flemming, a courtier of the highest civility, though iracund, and "with a passion for making Treaties," whom we know since Charles XII.'s time.
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An iracund bear, of dangerous proportions, and justly irritated against us at present?
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Friedrich Wilhelm's passion for drilling, recruiting and perfecting his army attracted much notice: laughing satirical notice; in the hundred months of common rumor, which he regarded little; and notice iracund and minatory, when it led him into collision with the independent portions of mankind, now and then.
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