irascibility
- n a feeling of resentful anger
- Said Roosevelt in a gibe at Yorty's notable irascibility: "Los Angeles must not be subjected to government by tantrum.
- Tusker's irascibility has been honed by questionable health and the approach of his 71st birthday.
- But all failed to understand what made Millionaire Millionaire: the simplicity; the pace; the good-cop, cranky-cop irascibility of Regis Philbin.