irascible
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Is he as grumpy and as irascible as he was in the first season?
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Introducing the series, Obama declares, “We’re not perfect, we can be irascible, heady, selfish, cheap and, let’s face it, some of us will always find something to complain about.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
She introduces readers to a passionate, driven and irascible scientist through the story of his life’s work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
“All In the Family” signposted its main character’s irascible bigotry and generation-gap grievances in the first minute by having its main character sing wistfully of a time when “Guys like me we had it made.”
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
He had never been an irascible man and before war was actually declared and Mississippi seceded, his acts and speeches of protest had been not only calm but logical and quite sensible.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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