irritable
adjective
easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
irritableness
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a word derived from
irritable.
Example Sentences
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It is perfectly marvelous to notice how a child will put on from six to eight pounds in a short period, at the same time overcoming his irritableness and fretfulness.
From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler
He felt no anger at the denunciation, only a plaguing irritableness, an annoyance with both Harding and himself.
From Skin Game by Charles E. Fritch
He must be free from ill passion and irritableness.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr
Miriam had spent a day or two of alternate languor and irritableness, unable to attend to anything serious.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
Cochrane blinked, lifted even out of his irritableness by the sight before him.
From Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster
