irately r in an irate manner `Get out,' he shouted irately Usage(s) Customs Inspector General Jules Schiffman last week stamped irately up down his spacious office in Bern's Bundeshaus. One woman, played by Octogenarian Clara Peller, asks irately, "Where's the beef?" The implied answer: Wendy's quarter-pound burgers have the beef. But, as his colleagues in Paris irately pointed out, it was a scoop that anyone might have had if he were willing to break his word.