irascible

He has been called "a most difficult and irascible man."

She no longer was a guest or an irascible little girl.

To have to admit to those problems only made the President more irascible.

Ever since the night that girl had come to the door asking for Key, he'd been even more irascible than before.

"You're not making sense either," he said in an irascible voice.

He was always an impatient and irascible man, that way.

She had seen that look on his face before, stubborn and irascible.

The reality usually leaves me not just cold but let down and irascible.

On the other hand, dealing with Need's irascible personality was not going to be easy.

Now the light, irascible tone had drained out of his voice.

Both had irascible temperaments, but for the moment all was well.

He was thought to be an eccentric, solitary and irascible man.

Still, that was preferable to his father's irascible and critical company.

Age seems to be making me weaker and more irascible, which in here is not a good combination.

The 58-year-old rocker is famous for his irascible behavior in life and art.

In this world, Kong, while certainly irascible, also shows himself to be a pretty evolved guy.

Cube saw that there was no reasoning with this irascible woman.

Another thing that makes me irascible and churlish is positive thinking.

It's never long, though, before he reverts to his true, irascible nature.

He turned on his slippers and into the protection of an irascible nurse.

It was the kind of behavior that is laughed off as irascible only in hindsight.

In the next, he is an irascible critic of slack and neglect.

She was sounding really very irascible by this point.

"I warn you, however, that the professor is irascible and violent at times."

I thought he looked rather like an irascible crow.