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Pregnant at 23, married not long after, she had endured 14 years of bossy, broody cantankerousness from a man to whom marriage was “a tourniquet I didn’t think we could live without.”

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022

Durst would later testify that despite Black’s cantankerousness they became friendly, and the real estate heir slumming it in Texas dropped the disguise.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2020

Yet, for all his cantankerousness, he is part of the British medical-research establishment.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2016

Stewart’s cantankerousness also extends to his driving style.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2014

They felt that Keith, for all his "cantankerousness," might be right.

From The Calico Cat by Thompson, Charles Miner