irritable

• I am irritable, and out of temper. —  The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Her temper is more irritable, and Mr. Gordon Cumming says:--"She is more dangerous before she has been a mother; yet every vestige of tameness or docility vanishes when she is a mother, and she is then in a constant state of excitement, getting into the most violent fury if any one should attempt to touch her cubs." —  Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals
• Privations had made him irritable, and he had to bite his lip to keep down a bitter answer. —  A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"
• As this mortifying conviction came home to her bosom, she grew restless, irritable, and captious to excess; she watched all his motions with a self-tormenting jealousy; she fed her own disquiet by listening to the malicious informations of his enemies; and her heart at length becoming callous by repeated exasperations, she began to visit his delinquencies with an unrelenting sternness. —  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
• You know that he is irritable, and that when he has taken up a prejudice it is difficult to eradicate it. —  Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War

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