cantankerous

How To Use cantankerous In A Sentence

• She was a character actress who specialized in either cantankerous or kindly older women for three decades, simply by knitting or unknitting her eyebrows.
• The new audience would be all of those who have ever figured they were getting screwed when they tried to argue for a raise, dicker with cantankerous suppliers, sell a used car, or buy a new house.
• His dad is the cantankerous black sheep of the mob.
• I think modern parents will empathise with him, I really do, if people really listen to this play, but because of his attitude and his cantankerousness he may not get sympathy.
• Johnson:Yeah, well, think of anybody else. Frank Lloyd Wright was too cantankerous to love. Mies van der rohe.
• I look back upon myself at this time as upon a cantankerous, ill - tempered and unobliging child. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
• And thanks as always for the great ideas, cautionary advice, humor and general cantankerousness that makes this site so special. Side trips out of Guadalajara
• Giving readings was seen as an embarrassment, and generations of German poets were proud to fumble around in sullen cantankerousness.
• And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.
• Yet for all her cantankerousness, the woman had fed her and given her a job, and for the first while a place to live.