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Example sentences for: cantankerous

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I fear that too many people will throw up their hands in exasperation at Updike's way of appealing for love by presenting his heroes as ever more odious or cantankerous, and too many other people will celebrate the book mostly for its secondary virtues--its astronomical wonders sailing through the futuristic sky, the human-chomping metal animals, a few political jokes.
Another use of catamaran , quite different, is a cross-grained, cantankerous woman.
On the contrary, he could be quite cantankerous.
By the 1920s, the spelling had regularized to ornery , and the meaning had degenerated to `disagreeable' or `cantankerous.
' The agent-noun would have been contecker and the adjective conteckerous . The latter, according to the currently accepted theory, became contankerous , and then cantankerous , influenced by cankerous and rancorous .