What is "irate"

Usage examples of "irate".

Amid this vast stretch of stars, with seemingly endless planets an which lived not a soul to call him Joe, he could have really enjoyed the arrival from far away or an irate human voice bawling him out good and proper for some error, real or fancied.

That was where his man had gone, and without paying any further attention to the irate shopkeeper, he dashed out through it with Bim at his heels.

The Plaza was only ten blocks away, but we tipped the irate cabbie exorbitantly.

In some places a drenched and irate citizenry raised the alarm immediately, while others were left to awaken to peculiar smells and woefully soggy carpeting.

Sight of Kurman stopped the irate words that Cleer was about to hurl at Gancy.

The entire neighborhood would be sealed off--by police and fire equipment--and the Executioner would be contained within a painfully small hunting preserve, with irate Mafiosi turning every rock in a search for their most hated enemy.

Harry asked him, remembering how irate his uncle had been about Harry mentioning this.

One may have been a thief, an extortionist, or only an irate creditor for all I know.

More than once, Pinnatte had seen a similar fate meted out to irate owners who had so much forgotten themselves in the heat of the moment as to approach the central platform and argue with the Master.

Since the 1750s, the tone of Parlementaire resistance to royal policy had been irate vehemence.

In December to that point it tallied two muggings, a stolen vehicle, four vehicle break-ins, a handful of stolen purses, some suspected pickpocket activity, a variety of disturbances by the obnoxious or irate, two episodes of vandalism, a hit-and-run in the parking lot, vagrancy, panhandling, et cetera, et cetera, and a two-part list six pages long of suspected or confirmed shoplifting and stolen or missing merchandise.

Momentarily, she expected to hear an irate Silvina order Camo back to his ordinary duties, but all she heard was the buzz of whispered gossiping.

Charles Street into the knotted streets of downtown, grazing lampposts and cutting ahead of irate horsecar drivers.

Caudell remembered the first day of marching down at Camp Mangum, when an irate drill sergeant had compared their ragged line to a drunken centipede in an ass-kicking contest.

It quickly filled with mackerel, and in this case several very irate, very large, yellowfin tuna.