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Cantankerous
"Cantankerous" in a Sentence (12 examples)
Tom is cantankerous.
You're cantankerous.
He is a violent, dangerous, cantankerous character, hated by everyone who comes across him.
Tom isn't as cantankerous as he used to be.
Dmitri has an unlikable and cantankerous personality.
Tom is a cantankerous old man.
What a cantankerous man!
"She is a cantankerous old maid," added another, whom I recognised, by his voice, as a man whose attentions I had put a determined check to not six weeks before: "she is a cantankerous old maid, fretting and snarling over the loss of her beauty."
Murphy's Law never proved itself more accurate than at the Nov. 18 film benefit for Persephone Press. With problems ranging from a cantankerous projector to blown fuses, the presentations of Jan Oxenberg's films were blurred, disrupted and played with lapses in their soundtracks.
By contrast, cantankerous and churlish people are contemptuously independent of others’ opinions, not caring enough about others and their views.
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Nina was thrilled, muttering her cantankerous joy that I was getting out of the house.
Unfortunately, as Great-Aunt Bert could be a bit cantankerous, they were having to be creative.
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