About The Word Cantankerous
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Cantankerous
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What's The Definition Of Cantankerous?
[adj] having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
[adj] (British) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator Synonyms | Synonyms for Cantankerous: bloody-minded | crotchety | ill-natured | ornery | stubborn Related Terms | Find terms related to Cantankerous: bad-tempered | bearish | bilious | bitchy | cankered | choleric | churlish | contrary | crabbed | crabby | cranky | cross | cross-grained | crotchety | crusty | cussed | difficult | disagreeable | dour | dyspeptic | excitable | feisty | fractious | froward | grouchy | grumpy | huffish | huffy | ill-conditioned | ill-natured | ill-tempered | irascible | irritable | liverish | mean | morose | ornery | peevish | perverse | petulant | prickly | quarrelsome | snappish | sour | spiteful | spleeny | splenetic | stuffy | sulky | sullen | surly | testy | tetchy | touchy | ugly | vinegarish | vinegary | waspish | wayward | wrongheaded See Also | Cantankerous In Webster's Dictionary \Can*tan"ker*ous\, a.
Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [Colloq.] --
{Can*tan"ker*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Can*tan"ker*ous*ness}, n.
The cantankerous old maiden aunt. --Thackeray.
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