How To Use Cantankerous In A Sentence
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She was a character actress who specialized in either cantankerous or kindly older women for three decades, simply by knitting or unknitting her eyebrows.
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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.
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His dad is the cantankerous black sheep of the mob.
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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.
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Johnson:Yeah, well, think of anybody else. Frank Lloyd Wright was too cantankerous to love. Mies van der rohe.
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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
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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
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Giving readings was seen as an embarrassment, and generations of German poets were proud to fumble around in sullen cantankerousness.
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And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.
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Yet for all her cantankerousness, the woman had fed her and given her a job, and for the first while a place to live.
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The cantankerous aide organized support for health care reform, coordinated the Whitewater defense and helped chart the course to renomination.
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This isn't like the cantankerous old Johnboy we've come to know and loathe, and frankly I find this a bit disturbing, but a welcome change.
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Later, though, Sammy became more cantankerous.
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Dominic Everardus Bogardus, a cantankerous but more stable replacement, arrived a year later.
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Holmes investigates the possible spontaneous combustion of a cantankerous old man.
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He's cantankerous, tough and ready with a cutting remark.
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As someone who speaks fluent Spanish, I found myself swearing in Spanish when my people got cantankerous.
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Now, at almost 60, she has grown into a crotchety, cantankerous old woman who, nonetheless, has a deeply sensitive underside and a great affection for the children she minds.
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Everybody in her family dotes on her, which I find bemusing, as she is the most vituperative, cantankerous old crone I have ever met.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Fust thing is a new set of teeth, -- you done gummed yourself into dyspepsy and gineral cantankerousness, -- and then I 'm sot on taking you to my house to visit a month and eat good victuals and git your stummick opened up whar it done growed together, and your mind unj'inted, and your sperrits limbered similar.'
Sight to the Blind
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I blurted out to my kind friend that I had absolutely no interest in that cantankerous, melancholy old woman!
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In Bad Santa, Billy Bob Thornton's part-time department store Santa is a seasonal safecracker and a foul-mouthed, cantankerous drunk all year round.
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It amuses primarily thanks to Newhook, largely because he plays his character with the lightest touch, investing Vallis with a believable cantankerousness.
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His cantankerous old mother and frustrated spinster sister are a constant drain on his increasingly shaky resources.
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Bert is the quintessential cantankerous old man, a know-it-all with a chip on his shoulder the size of an AARP Magazine cover.
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He almost behaved in his customary cantankerous manner.
Times, Sunday Times
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Barnard, best known as the cantankerous Dr. Hogue in 'Doc Hollywood,' co-starred with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in the 1998 sequel movie 'The Odd Couple II' and saw his son Doug Hughes win a Tony for directing the play 'Doubt.'
Lead Stories from AOL
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The cantankerous aide organized support for health care reform, coordinated the Whitewater defense and helped chart the course to renomination.
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Much like the late-lamented, cantankerous Mr Dahl, most children revel in the gleefully grotesque and delightfully disgusting.
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God forbid the Post reporter should "take sides," as that would violate the Golden Rule of "balance," and the "debate" might turn still more "cantankerous" -- or maybe it would get a bit more edifying, as real debate should be.
WaPo Article on E-Voting "Debate" Treats Corporate Flacks as Righteous Witnesses
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The cantankerous aide organized support for health care reform, coordinated the Whitewater defense and helped chart the course to renomination.
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Everyone is upstaged by Eileen Atkins as wealthy Miss Matilda Crawley, the cantankerous dame who sponsors Becky's social ascent.
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a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady
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Mink has been called cantankerous, difficult, morally superior, selfish and egotistical.
Yes We Can: Mink Shows How
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There is in Seeing Other People some of that cantankerous L.A. biliousness that makes Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm the great comedy show of our time.
In Full Swing: Sexual Liberation in L.A.
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Republicans politely call him "cantankerous" - at least that's what they say in public.
Workers Comp Insider
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The ever unsmiling facade of bellicose Boehner and the cantankerous Cantor are counting on BHO to commit a faux pas so they can call the GOP cops to curb the enthusiasm of the common citizen.
GOP is 'no friend of seniors' DNC says in TV ad
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The cantankerous old lady she had worked for for six years had been good to her, in her gruff way.
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argumentative to the point of being cantankerous
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he answered her cantankerously
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In my life, I never met an unhappier, crabbier, more cantankerous baby girl.
A Spine-chilling Visit to Dr. Frankengali
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Somehow, a cantankerous rush to judgement is accompanied all the way by sympathy and insight.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In the place of traditional images of women - the devoted wife, caring mother, and cantankerous lover - we are now offered new individualities.
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Rex learned much of what he knows about the profession from his father, and while his dad was proud to be called cantankerous and rightly hailed as a defensive genius,
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I got too close to one old cantankerous grandaddy and he grunted a telling off and moved just enough to send me skeltering.
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It is childishness, Zoo, but I think a better descriptor would be "churlishness". bit is a little cantankerous today.
Think Progress
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By the time Simon dragged ass into the taping, Ellen had some choice gay insults to hurl at him, calling the cantankerous Brit a "prima donna.
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Everyone's been kicked out of a spot by an old, cantankerous gramps at some point.
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It was widely known that the cantankerous old Canadian press baron could not bear rich people who had not earned their wealth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ms. Trubek's initial cantankerousness, though, is understandable.
In Brief: Travel
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Cantankerous, colorful, and roiled by clashing personalities, this eclectic confederacy of dirtbags, freebooters, and aristocrats represents the crowning ambition of working guides all across America.
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Cantankerous critics like me will be dismissed as fussy old fogies.
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To anybody that could read no deeper than the physical, he was just as grumpy and cantankerous as always.
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I got too close to one old cantankerous grandaddy and he grunted a telling off and moved just enough to send me skeltering.
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No longer did she have to fetch wood and water and wait hand and foot upon cantankerous menfolk.
THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
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He was called cantankerous, which he probably took as a badge of honour.
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Cantankerous, colorful, and roiled by clashing personalities, this eclectic confederacy of dirtbags, freebooters, and aristocrats represents the crowning ambition of working guides all across America.
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At first glance he seemed like such a stuffy person, even cantankerous at times.
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Now we have responsibility for my 88 year old cantankerous maiden aunt who suffers from moderately severe dementia and resides in a rest home.
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He's a cantankerous old man, set in his ways and prone to sulking to get what he wants.
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Celestino, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, lives in cantankerous old age in Paris, complaining to his daughter about their host country, yet not daring to return home for fear of Francoist reprisal.
Monster of Marriage
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Getty Images Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, who once hosted a foul-mouthed television cooking show, has been called cantankerous and crude.
Samak Calls for Referendum
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Like all of us, he could be grumpy and cantankerous, but he was never mean-spirited in deed or thought.
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I was paging through some Arthur Schopenhauer, a brilliant, cantankerous, whoring son of this city.
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I am well aware that there is a Sicilian _in fabula_ who is not "mafioso"; that the crude banditism which sits in every Corsican's bones has raised him to the elysium of martyrs and heroes and not, where he ought to have gone, to the gallows; that the Maltese are not merely cantankerous and bigoted (Catholic) Arabs, but also sober, industrious, and economical.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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When the cantankerous old miller dies of a heart attack, he bequeaths his property to his eldest son, his donkey to the second, and the mill cat to his youngest son Mark.
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She confesses that part of the reason the farm spares the cantankerous Wilbur is because she saved him when he was small.
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It was widely known that the cantankerous old Canadian press baron could not bear rich people who had not earned their wealth.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was crotchety and cantankerous, but he was always a familiar face to see on the scene.
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She was a cantankerous old dear and as deaf as a doorpost, but we had always been on friendly terms, and I had never quarrelled with her.
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He was always known as Captain Jessie, a cantankerous old duffer nearing his eightieth year.
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Keith, for all his "cantankerousness," might be right.
The Calico Cat
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The cantankerous aide organized support for health care reform, coordinated the Whitewater defense and helped chart the course to renomination.
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And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.
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Dominic Everardus Bogardus, a cantankerous but more stable replacement, arrived a year later.
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And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.
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Beginning in the spring of that year, the cantankerous octogenarian wrote an extended series of letters - over three hundred in all - that appeared biweekly in a local newspaper.
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Rational Review
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They used to do a sketch as two cantankerous old dons forever inventing new ways to insult one another.
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He is cantankerous, idealistic, blinkered, thin-skinned, romantic, a man of the ‘enlightenment’ but curiously unenlightened himself.
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His Golden-footed Majesty presently repented him of his arbitrary "cantankerousness," and in due time my ultimatum was accepted.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
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He is a grasping, cantankerous wretch, but he is no fool.
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Matilda in later life actually ended up being one of those people who once was important so in the time of becket and Eleanor she had become a nagging and cantankerous woman till her death.
Becket
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Although he was well past the age when his peers were said to grow cantankerous, and although he was a chacma-the largest of the baboon families-Mon Cul was considered a fit companion for the circus tots.
Another Roadside Attraction
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A shame, then; in the book reviewed here… a picture gradually emerges of the artist as a cantankerous and socially maladroit buffoon.
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Gourmet dog food will transform your cantankerous mutt into an obedient show dog.
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Charlotte Hayes was around Revel's age, and was turning away from the irascibility of her youth into the cantankerousness of middle age.
Fishers of Hope
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The only other person from my group who was there was Ernie (the old cantankerous fool).
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In her debut novel, Kettle of Vultures, Sabrina Lamb showcases her humorist side through the main character and her family, which includes her cantankerous grandmother, Ms. Chickie; her snobby mother, Lee Artist; and her evasive father.
A Kettle of Vultures
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He can be overbearing, cantankerous and obnoxious at times.
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True, the man we knew was physically frail, but the walls of books (a true polymath, he had mastered a dizzying array of languages), the enthusiasms, and the blithe cantankerousness were all things we had experienced.
Postcard from America: On the Road, Alan Ansen, part one : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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I thought I'd join the callous, cankerous, and cantankerous commenters' point of view for a change to see how it felt.
What does Barack Obama really think about affirmative action?
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Cantankerous and rigid with old age, Morgan refused to give Muller full recognition for his theory of mutagenesis, which he regarded as a largely derivative observation.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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cantankerousness," to use one of his own words, he was a singularly steadfast and loyal friend.
The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
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At 178 pounds was the one and only Cassius Clay, who was cantankerous, garrulous and obstreperous.
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The doctor persisted with the cantankerous little car, but admitted that if he had an urgent medical case to visit he would take a horse drawn gig rather than risk a break down.
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What of the televangelists who promise to cure everything from cantankerousness to cancer, in exchange for a generous ‘love offering‘?
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Now we have responsibility for my 88 year old cantankerous maiden aunt who suffers from moderately severe dementia and resides in a rest home.
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Like all of us, he could be grumpy and cantankerous, but he was never mean-spirited in deed or thought.
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An emotionally confused daughter, a computer-recluse son and a cantankerously flatulent grandfather raise family bickering to an art.
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There are no doubt wise and astute teenagers, just as there are foolish and cantankerous old folks.
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The defendant is a cantankerous individual gripped by the dangerous delusion that his opinion matters.
