The phrase "rather irate" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is very angry or annoyed. Example: The customer became rather irate when she found out her order had been delayed for the third time.
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds" – Samuel Adams, 1775 It is easy to feel powerless in this world.
As that great revolutionary firebrand Samuel Adams pointed out, "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people's minds".
When two people leave during her first five minutes – presumably a theatre mix-up in the multi-venue Noodle Palace rather than an irate protest – she immediately incorporates it in the song.
Publisher Bloomsbury are on another print run now (due to its success, I should add, rather than a few irate comments on the River Cottage forums), but apparently this time without the errors.
Even then, the camera is so intimately trapped in the trust of the moment, and the boy so plainly believes that he has, however fleetingly, found someone to love him, that, for once, the old saw of the censor — that a work of art may serve to harm or delude impressionable minds — doesn't seem so obtuse, and you could make a good liberal, rather than a conservatively irate, case for giving "L.I.E".
But, in common with the Daily Mail's irate readers, I would rather my children did not, while innocently surfing, stumble across the Big Bad Wolf shagging Little Red Riding Hood.
Rather than check their privilege, the irate yuppies have decided that they'd rather turn us over.
And so arguably the greatest rock band of all time – Led Zeppelin – began as the New Yardbirds on a Scandinavian tour undertaken to escape lawsuits from irate promoters; with a bustle, rather than a bang.
