I should say he was an irritable man in his lifetime.

Stimbol had been an irritable man, a bully and a coward; but he was no criminal.

In the end only one warrior, a small, irritable man named Red Cat, refused to put his weapon on what had become a great pile.

Poor boy, she thought, away from his loving home and now dumped with an irritable old man.

They are advanced, for the most part, by thoughtless and irritable little men.

Another friend once called him "one of the most irritable and vindictive men I ever met".

Mauve put himself out in all sorts of ways - a highly irritable man who could be expansively generous.

Idly, Cato sucked them clean as he waited for the irritable man to find calm.

His reaction is that of an irritable old man who is being pestered by a noisy child.

A stooped, irritable man with thinning hair and glasses stood behind the counter, wearing a white coat.