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Significados de cantankerous em inglês

Having a difficult and contrary disposition.

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Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate.

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Examples for "ornery"
Examples for "ornery"
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Of course, there's a fine line between that and just being ornery.
Ebony
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Only Jolene and Nate, an ornery bull-andHurricane Damon poised to strike.
Riding the storm
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The blacks an' yellers an' half-bred fellers and ornery folk like me.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920
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Anyway, he was as ornery stingy as he could be an' live.
Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories
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Lord, but that girl's worth about a dozen of your ornery kind.
Peggy Stewart, Navy Girl, at Home
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No point in both of us being exposed to his crotchety attitude.
Here comes trouble
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The members are as crotchety as though their place were a club.
The new yorker
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So why is the comedian, actor and Observer columnist still so crotchety?
The Guardian
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And in both cases an avowed dissentient is set down as 'crotchety.'
Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the pri...
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Maybe I'm just an old physicist that gets crotchety about these things.
Wired
Uso de cantankerous em inglês
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That has been most starkly true in cantankerous America and Brexit-era Britain.
The economist
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Tears are dreadful things; and these cantankerous men can rarely stand them.
Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl
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He is the most cantankerous and the dearest man I ever met.
The Lost Despatch
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And now there isn't a lazier, more cantankerous fellow in the place.
Maurice Guest
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I love Neil Young's attitude, he's beautifully cantankerous and a creative inspiration.
The Irish Times
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She made it more difficult for him by adopting a cantankerous tone.
Of Human Bondage
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Besides these, we have an army of cantankerous fleas quartered upon us.
Records of a Girlhood
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He was a mariner, very cantankerous, but a person of much consideration.
The Saga of Grettir the Strong: Grettir's Saga
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Bless my shoe laces if this cantankerous contraption isn't going wrong again!
Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat; Or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa
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He had absolutely none of the glowering snappiness typical of that cantankerous race.
Perdido Street Station
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He was called cantankerous, which he probably took as a badge of honour.
The Guardian
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Vernon had this cantankerous attitude and voice, and he would talk like this.
The new yorker
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A ploy to keep whiny or cantankerous supplicants moving along with their tales?
Speaking in Bones
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Luckily for Russia, the regions are less cantankerous and restive now.
Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era
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Wolverines are known for their cantankerous disposition and fearless defense of their territories.
Reuters
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I could look straight into those startled cantankerous eyes without stirring a muscle.
Shadows in Bronze
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