irascible
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Ms. Jackson is no apologist—her James has flaws aplenty—but where prior historians offered snide caricature, she portrays a complex leader who was “intelligent, resilient, idiosyncratic, irascible, guileful and witty.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Verity, an irascible but hugely successful aging Hollywood star, alternates narration with his younger best friend Helen in a story involving an aspiring scriptwriter named Phoebe.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025
"We love him. He was intrepid, he was funny, he was gruff, he was irascible, he was beautiful."
From BBC • May 5, 2024
The club identifies, correctly, as a titan, and — under Pérez’s stewardship, in particular — it has taken great pride in living the values associated with the classical definition of that term: impetuous, impulsive, irascible.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2024
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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