Having a difficult and contrary disposition.
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Examples for "cantankerous"
Examples for "cantankerous"
1That has been most starkly true in cantankerous America and Brexit-era Britain.
2Tears are dreadful things; and these cantankerous men can rarely stand them.
3He is the most cantankerous and the dearest man I ever met.
4And now there isn't a lazier, more cantankerous fellow in the place.
5I love Neil Young's attitude, he's beautifully cantankerous and a creative inspiration.
1No point in both of us being exposed to his crotchety attitude.
2The members are as crotchety as though their place were a club.
3So why is the comedian, actor and Observer columnist still so crotchety?
4And in both cases an avowed dissentient is set down as 'crotchety.'
5Maybe I'm just an old physicist that gets crotchety about these things.
1Of course, there's a fine line between that and just being ornery.
2Only Jolene and Nate, an ornery bull-andHurricane Damon poised to strike.
3The blacks an' yellers an' half-bred fellers and ornery folk like me.
4Anyway, he was as ornery stingy as he could be an' live.
5Lord, but that girl's worth about a dozen of your ornery kind.
6A person gets a little ornery, at times, living as I do.
7He's an ornery cuss, he'd appreciate it all right, that old mule.
8He was ornery as a pup, an' he's ornery as a dog.
9The other fellow was about thirty, and dressed about as ornery.
10Which is why Kendrick Lamar is the most ornery of modern rap stars.
11Everyone knew that donkeys couldn't be handled, that they were stubborn and ornery.
12This Hulls is jist dumb en ornery but Archie was smart.
13Mean an' ornery as the meanest thing you can think of.
14It ain't like as if it was an ornery two-by-four deal.
15I don't mean no ornery Moosehide, Birch-Creek kind of a strike.
16It makes a fella's kickin' and complainin' look kind of small and ornery.
Ornery nas variantes da língua
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