irritableness

Great singularity of conduct habitually displayed, periods of depression, irritableness, and nervousness, when crossed with similar characteristics in the other parent, or other unusual ones, not infrequently develop into actual insanity in succeeding generations.

Hers was a mild case of malaise, a below-the-surface restive irritableness.

Even in the best hospitals. vitamin-A child poisoning often goes undetected because its very symptoms�irritableness, painful movements, and tenderness to the examining doctor's touch�along with X-ray changes, are all too easily confused with the signs of syphilis, leukemia, or even, ironically, scurvy, which results from a deficiency of vitamin C. But if the X rays show premature hardening of the gristlelike ends where children's bones grow, says Dr. Pease, physicians should be alert for vitamin poisoning.

He felt no anger at the denunciation, only a plaguing irritableness, an annoyance with both Harding and himself.

He must be free from ill passion and irritableness.