irascible
adjective
easily provoked to anger; very irritable.
irascibly
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a word derived from
irascible.
Example Sentences
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Cut to several years later: Barnes is president, sniping and scheming in Washington, while Keating is irascibly adjusting to civilian life in rural New Hampshire.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2021
There was Bob Newhart, irascibly insisting to Ben Stiller that he was not a waxworks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2019
The scenes irascibly mocking the acting students have long passed from sour to vinegary.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2019
Robert Croft, irascibly, and Dean Cosker, modishly, still churn out the spin in mid‑afternoon, and have 39 seasons between them.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2011
Doc Daneeka demanded, lifting his delicate immaculate dark head up from his chest to gaze at Yossarian irascibly for a moment with lachrymose eyes.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
