as in fiery
easily irritated or annoyed
that irritable old man always yells at people to stay off of his lawn
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Recent Examples of irritable
Within a couple of weeks of wearing the buds, my ears stopped having the irritable side effects.
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Oct. 2024
Also known as irritable hip, the condition is due to inflammation of the hip joint lining.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
But others may become anxious, irritable or overwhelmed.
—Julia Lamont, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
Also, avoid traveling during the hours that your youngest child is most irritable or sensitive.
—Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for irritable 
Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Oct. 2024
Also known as irritable hip, the condition is due to inflammation of the hip joint lining.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
But others may become anxious, irritable or overwhelmed.
—Julia Lamont, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
Also, avoid traveling during the hours that your youngest child is most irritable or sensitive.
—Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for irritable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irritable
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Midway through the first episode of Say Nothing, Dolours Price encounters a fiery scene in West Belfast: a mob of Northern Irish citizens chucking petrol bombs at a police barracks.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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Miller, 39, is a former Capitol Hill staffer who rose to prominence as a fiery Trump speechwriter and key architect of his immigration policies from 2017 to 2021.Elliot Spagat, The Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2024
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The film’s co-star, Diane Kruger, plays several roles, notably Karsh’s late wife (seen in flashback) and her snappish veterinarian-turned-dog-groomer sister.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2024
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Keynes is a snappish but patient listener.Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
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Even the typically irascible Joy Behar was comparatively tame while expressing her dissatisfaction.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Lewis could be briefly irascible, but his kindness almost always triumphed.Christopher Carroll, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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For all that, his Arthur remains a lowly outsider, with a downcast gaze, a peevish temper, and a deep well of melancholy that never feels one-note.Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
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The preternaturally peevish Pentecostal preacher is back and absent as ever.Kristen Baldwin and Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2023
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The reporters are grumpy, but the ruse works, and (Sean Murray) and Torres’ (Wilmer Valderrama) scurry across the upstairs hallway carrying roughly 200 pounds of literally dead weight.EW.com, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Where to watch: Apple TV and video on demand 'Goosebumps' (2015) R.L. Stine's beloved series of kids horror books was the inspiration behind this rousing adventure where a couple of teens face a host of unleashed creepers, with an evil dummy and Jack Black channeling Stine as a grumpy literary dad.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
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The movie follows a kid and his friend who dig into the mysteries of a haunted house across the street after the grouchy old man who lived there dies in his yard.Dustin Nelson, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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Grier expertly blends grouchy and avuncular, skeptical and devoted, without making either extreme feel like a cliché.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
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But if Coppola’s latest film echoes some ugly tendencies in tech, its actual aims feel more personal and petulant.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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Those preening, petulant, damn good San Diego Padres.Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
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What Kate will not thank him for is being a big crabby baby about her relationship with Dennison.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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There were fish living in the ice and thousands of mating pairs of these giant crustaceans dropping out of crevices on top of us, like giant crabby spiders.Jill Heinerth, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Irritable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irritable. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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