Cantankerous Meaning and Usage

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Cantankerous Meaning:

adjective.

- ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable.
- difficult to handle

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Usage examples:

“a cantankerous old man”
“a cantankerous, argumentative man”
"a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"
"had to use liquid helium, which is supercold, costly and cantankerous"
“disliked her cantankerous landlord”

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Forms:

cantankerously - adverb
cantankerousness - noun

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Use cantankerous in a sentence:

1. The bear was always a little cantankerous in the mornings.

2. It is hard not to sympathize with his desire to knock off manager Mark, a hammy, cantankerous old man.

3. Philip’s few friends would describe him as cantankerous, tight-fisted, mean-spirited and misanthropic.

4. The cantankerous behavior that the students exhibited during the demonstration agitated the principal.

5. "Greg is so cantankerous, he complains about his birthday gifts."

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Cantankerous Synonyms:

bad-tempered, crabbed, cranky, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, ugly, waspish, ornery, crotchety.

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Cantankerous Antonyms:

easy, good-natured, happy, nice, pleasant

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Some more examples:

1. The cantankerous customer continued to insist on a refund in his loud, irritating voice.

2. The doctor told the young man to go out and find the ugliest, most cantankerous woman he could find and marry her!!!

3. Tom was always cantankerous in the morning, given to snapping and snarling until he'd had his first cup of coffee and a soothing hot shower.

4. That day, this normally upbeat guy was uncharacteristically irritable and cantankerous.

5. Charlie used to be so friendly, but he's become a cantankerous old codger.

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