cantankerous
adjective
disagreeable to deal with; contentious; peevish.
cantankerousness
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a word derived from
cantankerous.
Example Sentences
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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
Our father, with all his cantankerousness, was a humorist, and Sati’s idea was that during this time our father was considering the family grief and having a good laugh.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 30, 2019
A small, intense and somewhat prickly man with twinkling eyes, his cantankerousness was at once political and personal.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2017
Stewart’s cantankerousness also extends to his driving style.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2014
Eating his breakfast in his usual wolfish fashion, he went out into the hot sun with his team and riding-plough, not a little disturbed by this new phase of his wife's "cantankerousness."
From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
