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cantankerous
adjective as in difficult, crabby
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To Chicago he was still two-fisted, hard-drinking, cantankerous.
I still remember how disappointed I was by this cantankerous book.
First up, a classic profile of the cantankerous but lovable Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko.
The most dangerous animal to encounter when walking, I discovered, is not a lion but a cantankerous male buffalo.
It was ugly, cantankerous, simple enough for any farmhand to understand and fix, and indomitable.
As a rule even the most cantankerous women are placable after afternoon tea.
It's no wonder he drinks, hitched up to a cantankerous old hyena like that.
Some of the men I have to deal with are as bat-blind as they are cantankerous.
Every one recognises that cantankerous obstructiveness would only make matters worse, nay, absolutely intolerable.
I turned away to pay off my taxi, the driver of which was very cantankerous and abusive over his fare.
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On this page you'll find 99 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cantankerous, such as: cranky, dour, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, and prickly.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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