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• s  quickly aroused to anger
• s  characterized by anger
  an irascible response

• Less irascible and blunt than his hard-driving predecessor, the mayor has earned the reputation of being a modest, even-tempered and practical person capable of getting things done through consensus.
• His father was irascible, witty, hard drinking and ruinously improvident; his mother, a devout Roman Catholic, helplessly watched her husband and family slide into near poverty and .
• Less irascible and blunt than his hard-driving predecessor Zhu Rongji, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has earned the reputation of being a modest, even-tempered and practical person .

• choleric
• hotheaded
• hot-tempered
• quick-tempered
• short-tempered

News & Articles

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• Author of new Hatfields and McCoys book visits with descendants of feuding kin
  Iris Underwood, a descendant of the irascible feudist Randall McCoy, runs a lavender farm in Michiga
  June 8, 2013 - Lexington Herald-Leader
• Rockies walk off with victory
  DENVER -- Before Friday night's game, rookie Nolan Arenado was getting the business, and how, from irascible veteran Todd Helton in the Rockies' clubhouse.
  June 8, 2013 - Boulder Daily Camera

Quotes

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• Ralph Kiner in Forbes
  The player with the best career batting average "wasn't irascible around me, but I heard the stories," Kiner said.
• Christopher Buckley in NewsMax.com
  But that was - sigh - then. John McCain has changed,Buckley writes. "This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack...
• Bo Schembechler in Salt Lake Tribune
  I had a wonderful experience there because I coached for Woody when Woody was really Woody,Schembechler said. "He was the most irascible guy that ever lived, and the worst guy in the world to work for. But I wouldn't change that experience...