as in irritableness
readiness to show annoyance or impatience
the librarian's well-known irritability makes students hesitant to ask questions
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Recent Examples of irritability
The irritability or walking into a room only to forget why seconds later.
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Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
This could look like mood swings, irritability, hostility, feelings of depression, and thoughts of suicide or self-harm.
—Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
Say goodbye to hot flashes, weight gain, and irritability.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 3 Sep. 2025
Justice notes these preoccupations often impact our wellness in subtle and overlooked ways that can add up to significant harm like sleep disturbance, irritability, uncontrolled worry, ruminating about the ‘what ifs,’ exhaustion, burnout, and over-functioning.
—Essence, 27 Aug. 2025
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Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
This could look like mood swings, irritability, hostility, feelings of depression, and thoughts of suicide or self-harm.
—Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
Say goodbye to hot flashes, weight gain, and irritability.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 3 Sep. 2025
Justice notes these preoccupations often impact our wellness in subtle and overlooked ways that can add up to significant harm like sleep disturbance, irritability, uncontrolled worry, ruminating about the ‘what ifs,’ exhaustion, burnout, and over-functioning.
—Essence, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irritability
Noun
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The next step for Adell is to add some more discipline to that aggression.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
27 Sep. 2025
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Historically, security at ICE facilities has been about protecting agents and detainees from internal threats like detainee aggression, or gang violence, mimicking the criminal justice system, according to experts, ICE detentions standards and the detainee handbook.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This can lead to rapid mood swings, difficulty controlling emotions, aggressiveness, and outbursts.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
22 Sep. 2025
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Payton’s natural aggressiveness and creativity as a play-caller mean constantly-rotating personnel groups on initial downs.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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Yet Lupino brings such intensity and anger to her performance that the film’s register shifts into something far darker — so dark, in fact, that a prologue and epilogue Jack Warner insisted be added to make the movie more glamorous focus on a suicide attempt!—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
25 Sep. 2025
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In the affidavit, a detective noted that Decker — who was divorced from his daughters’ mother — refused to sign a parenting plan that required him to seek mental health treatment and domestic violence anger management.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
25 Sep. 2025
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The most common symptoms of teething include drooling, putting fingers or fists in their mouth, swollen or puffy gums, difficulty sleeping, crankiness and fussiness, per the institution.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
19 Sep. 2025
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At one point, her crankiness about being underappreciated for her domestic efforts is blamed, without irony, on her period.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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People with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes have reduced insulin sensitivity, leading to high blood glucose.—
Cristina Mutchler,
Verywell Health,
20 Sep. 2025
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Food influences key biological pathways such as blood sugar and insulin sensitivity, chronic inflammation, immune and metabolic function and the gut microbiome.—
Chrystle Fiedler,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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So there’s a feeling of vindictiveness and petulance that’s in there, but there’s also a practicality to it, too.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Sep. 2025
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In an obvious display of childish petulance, a significant number of Democratic representatives in Texas abandoned their jobs and responsibilities to the voters by fleeing to Illinois.—
For the Carroll County Times,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Aug. 2025
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For example, in a fiery defense of federal aid to the citizens of Alabama and Georgia devastated by recent Native American hostilities, Adams invoked Congress’s war powers, while calling attention to a deeper hypocrisy.—
Time,
Time,
24 Sep. 2025
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Even countries like Iran, which have long used the Palestinian cause as a pretext for hostility, would now face a diplomatic reckoning.—
Faisal J. Abbas,
semafor.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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Passions run as high as style, and candor and fervor blend with humor, to endow anecdotes and reflections with pride and purpose along with mourning and indignation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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And rather than indignation or rage or fury, what comes through in the letters is his sheer amazement at being in this predicament.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Irritability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irritability. Accessed 28 Sep. 2025.
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