cantankerousness
Example Sentences
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Durst would later testify that despite Black’s cantankerousness they became friendly, and the real estate heir slumming it in Texas dropped the disguise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2020
A small, intense and somewhat prickly man with twinkling eyes, his cantankerousness was at once political and personal.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2017
Yet, for all his cantankerousness, he is part of the British medical-research establishment.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016
Stewart’s cantankerousness also extends to his driving style.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2014
In the partial stupors it is seen as active opposition and cantankerousness.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy
