Irascible in a sentence

It might sound like Jim was an irascible trouble-maker, a nuisance, and no doubt those in power might have seen him as such, but from anyone I’ve spoken to about him, his views came from the heart and he was never ill-intentioned.

You see, employers, partners, relations and just about everyone you know will be unreliable, irascible and utterly contradictory.

A prickly, somewhat irascible character, perhaps a little too forthright with her opinions, Mackenzie is infused with just a little of the woman who plays her, according to the actor.

Dr Rhiannon McGlade, Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, will be giving a lecture titled "The Irascible Ink: Satire and Subversion in Catalan Feminist Comic Art".

It must have been tame after Graceland, which included (apart from the huge entourage) an irascible great-grandmother, an alcoholic aunt and of course the beloved father increasingly bloated by his self-destructive lifestyle.

The club identifies, correctly, as a titan, and — under Pérez’s stewardship, in particular — it has taken great pride in living the values associated with the classical definition of that term: impetuous, impulsive, irascible.

The irascible president has lambasted universities as leftist indoctrination camps.

The latter wore a permanent smirk while Hill was speaking, a fact that failed to escape Hill and appeared to lead him into a more argumentative, irascible state than usual.

An irascible love for writing, she has been published on numerous websites both about her craft and about her passion for movies.

Episodes also highlighted Katz’s personal life, especially his relationships with his manchild son Ben () and his irascible secretary Laura (), and his small, relatable goals.

He played the irascible owner of a small airline.

I don’t really believe in “judicial temperament,” because some of the greatest justices were irascible, difficult and mercurial.

Over the course of eight seasons, actor Hugh Laurie turned the irascible Dr. Gregory House into one of pop culture’s most iconic physicians in this medical drama that ranked among the most popular shows in the world during its run.

The premise of the show would have followed an irascible private eye in Los Angeles and his ne'er-do-well pals in the beach-town of El Segundo.

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is tussling with economic meltdown, China tensions, an irascible boss and now… an attack by the swearing, raging frontman of Guns N’ Roses.

Must be what’s making Donald Trump so irascible.

They had the best point guard of this generation in Curry, and the best off-guard in Thompson, and the best defensive player of any height in the irascible and thoroughly entertaining Draymond Green.

But Mr. Reed still has those eyebrows — impish, irascible, just like in the framed Al Hirschfeld caricature of him in his den from 1970.

Success for the Council in the Lindy Peters era was a Townhall with lots of empty seats and only a few irascible regulars hanging in there.

The daughter (Camille Sullivan) is irascible and not particularly good at relating to other humans.