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• she is a cantankerous old maid fretting and snarling over the loss of her beauty.
• The great principle on which the privileges of cantankerous folly and ill-nature found is this: that as we go on through life we grow somewhat cowardly; and if a thing be disagreeable, we just keep out of its way: sometimes by rather shabby expedients.
• I am being cantankerous. Some days I feel so cantankerous I could take a machine-gun into the streets and shoot down the whole population of Hendon Central; I don't know why.
• By contrast, cantankerous and churlish people are contemptuously independent of others’ opinions, not caring enough about others and their views.
• The cantankerous are those "marked by ill humor, irritability, and determination to disagree." Webster's New International Dictionary 328 (3d ed.1986).
• All things being equal, a cantankerous person or a curmudgeon would be more secure by becoming more unpleasant.
• Nina was thrilled, muttering her cantankerous joy that I was getting out of the house.
• The cantankerous landlord always grumbled when asked to fix something.
• Unfortunately, as Great-Aunt Bert could be a bit cantankerous, they were having to be creative