irascible

But he praised his irascible former partner as “an incredible asset not only to the company, but to the world.”

But science has a process for all of this—scientists tend to be irascible, doubting, and arrogant if not annoying.

These often complained, not only of her pride and reserve, but of her high and irascible temper and vindictive disposition.

There was never seen upon the stage a princess of so wild, irascible, and determined a character as this Clarice.

The irascible person, ready to take offence at trifles, and in other ways uncertain.

To dispositions highly irascible, it is frequently more gratifying to have a subject of complaint than of acknowledgment.

He is ambitious, irascible, a spoilt child of fortune; the most susceptible and the vainest of men.