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She is a cantankerous old woman who seldom has something good to say.cantankerous = tending to be grumpy, argumentative, and uncooperative
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She presided over the quarrelsome and cantankerous congressional testimony.cantankerous = argumentative and uncooperative
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I think fear had made us all a little cantankerous. (source)cantankerous = grumpy and argumentative
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"She was conscious to the last, almost. Conscious," he smiled, "and cantankerous." (source)cantankerous = tending to be grumpy, argumentative, and uncooperative
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Remember, I'm used to cantankerous cars. (source)cantankerous = difficult
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But people did come, and did sit and chew and swallow, their Adam's apples bobbing, .... as if there were nothing even a little breathtaking in Otis the waiter (formerly a cantankerous cook) actually waiting table, exactly as ordered. (source)cantankerous = tending to be grumpy, argumentative, and uncooperative
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"He was a cantankerous brute," Salamano said. (source)cantankerous = tending to be grumpy, argumentative, and uncooperative
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Grandmother did not see fit to do a damn thing, but she enjoyed Dan's efforts to cajole her out of her veteran, antisocial cantankerousness, and she agreed to attend the play; as for the cast party, she would see how she felt after the performance.† (source)cantankerousness = the state or degree of being grumpy, argumentative, and uncooperativestandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Milo was correct, of course, as everyone soon agreed but a few embittered misfits like Doc Daneeka, who sulked cantankerously and muttered offensive insinuations about the morality of the whole venture until Milo mollified him with a donation, in the name of the syndicate, of a lightweight aluminum collapsible garden chair that Doc Daneeka could fold up conveniently and carry outside his tent each time Chief White Halfoat came inside his tent and carry back inside his tent each time Chief White Halfoat came out.† (source)cantankerously = in a grumpy, argumentative, and uncooperative manner
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After Mom and Dad left, Erma became even more cantankerous.† (source)cantankerous = tending to be grumpy, argumentative, and uncooperative
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You forgot how loony she'd become, and her cantankerousness of the past year.† (source)cantankerousness = the state or degree of being grumpy, argumentative, and uncooperative
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Cranky, cantankerous, irritable and that's when she's in a good mood, Scatty said.† (source)cantankerous = tending to be grumpy, argumentative, and uncooperative
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The claim was almost as scandalous as it was improbable, but Frau Stohr swore it was so by all that was holy—though it was hard to understand how the poor thing could devote such zeal, vigor, and cantankerousness to gossip, when her own problems were giving her so much trouble.† (source)cantankerousness = the state or degree of being grumpy, argumentative, and uncooperative
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She likes waking up to the sound of Alyona bleating in the morning, and the harmlessly cantankerous cook, Adiba, who works marvels in the kitchen.† (source)cantankerous = tending to be grumpy, argumentative, and uncooperative
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It is this compliant animal, to the public no different from the others in size and apparent ferocity, that will be the star of the show, while the trainer leaves the beta and gamma lions, more cantankerous subordinates, sitting on their colourful barrels on the edge of the ring.† (source)
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After all, his dad had died so conveniently, just when the son was old enough to appreciate afresh what the father knew, while they were still working smoothly together, before age made the father unreliable or cantankerous.† (source)
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