irascible 的定义
- easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- characterized or produced by anger: an irascible response.
irascible 近义词
crabby
更多irascible例句
- He was much more emotional, irascible and difficult, but also intellectually, he was changed.
- The British establishment was furious, and it was the irascible Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who lead the fight-back.
- He struggled with his brilliant but irascible secretary of state, William Seward, to control the direction of foreign policy.
- Wagner, as irascible and cynical as he can be, is a subtly empathetic writer.
- But he praised his irascible former partner as “an incredible asset not only to the company, but to the world.”
- But science has a process for all of this—scientists tend to be irascible, doubting, and arrogant if not annoying.
- These often complained, not only of her pride and reserve, but of her high and irascible temper and vindictive disposition.
- There was never seen upon the stage a princess of so wild, irascible, and determined a character as this Clarice.
- The irascible person, ready to take offence at trifles, and in other ways uncertain.
- To dispositions highly irascible, it is frequently more gratifying to have a subject of complaint than of acknowledgment.
- He is ambitious, irascible, a spoilt child of fortune; the most susceptible and the vainest of men.