Mary H.K. Choi

My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort.

South Korean Author

Joel Edgerton

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.

Australian Actor

Tom Hardy

I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.

English Actor

From the first time I harangued my mother into buying me a pair of platform sandals at the irascible and persistent age of 11, I've worn heels.

Ed Asner

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

American Actor

Ezra Pound

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

American Poet

Irascible often describes someone with a short temper and impulsive reactions.

Emotionally Charged

Using 'irascible' suggests a negative opinion about someone's personality.

Negative Connotation

Irascible is often used to indicate a characteristic trait, not just a temporary mood.

Personality Trait

 Bengal this remarkable Charles Howard brewery in the irascible Scott Herald Rayburn let's take Charles Howard brewery over there this is an incredible guy who led the 1921 expedition he was not really a man designed for war but he saw the war from start to finish he was always drawn to the sacred he

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 one of my supervisors was this irascible Italian core Pietro who drank too much smoke too much and swore much too much but he was a passionate teacher and I remember one of our earlier classes with

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 When I was considering a career in the art world, I took a course in London, and one of my supervisors was this irascible Italian

Irascible

Easily made angry.

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Negative Connotation

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