Example Sentences

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“One of the things I love about Russ Moore is, he’s comfortably orthodox, he’s not cantankerously orthodox,” Wax said.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2021

Lately and most cantankerously, it’s Kanye West who has been daring to level with us.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2020

He later settled down to reflect, cantankerously, on the trail of broken bands, ex-wives and neglected children he'd left in his wake.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2019

Offstage, she had a reputation for being just as steely and sometimes cantankerously determined — but consistently hilarious.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2018

The Osprey had never again put into port at Cardiff, where Mr. Pryse bit his nails and snarled more cantankerously than ever, and nothing had been heard of Evan.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus