Thesaurus / cantankerous
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If you’re dreading Thanksgiving with your cantankerous relatives, a pre-meal run could get you through the day.
YOUR LAST-MINUTE TRAINING GUIDE TO DOMINATING THIS YEAR’S TURKEY TROTCLAIRE MALDARELLINOVEMBER 21, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThe very things that make this the kind of book you could hand to a cop, a neighbor or a cantankerous uncle may make it unsatisfying for more sophisticated readers.
WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT POVERTY IS PROBABLY WRONGROSA BROOKSMARCH 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAs a rule even the most cantankerous women are placable after afternoon tea.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME II (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSIt's no wonder he drinks, hitched up to a cantankerous old hyena like that.
QUINALICE HEGAN RICESome of the men I have to deal with are as bat-blind as they are cantankerous.
THAT LASS O' LOWRIE'SFRANCES HODGSON BURNETTEvery one recognises that cantankerous obstructiveness would only make matters worse, nay, absolutely intolerable.
AMERICA TO-DAY, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONSWILLIAM ARCHERI turned away to pay off my taxi, the driver of which was very cantankerous and abusive over his fare.
THE POISON BELTARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt had cost him more trouble than enough to assemble together the cantankerous townsfolk.
THE FOURTH ESTATE, VOL. 2ARMANDO PALACIO VALDSIf folks wa'n't sorry for her there wouldn't a soul go near her from mornin' till night, she's that cantankerous.
POLLYANNAELEANOR H. PORTERGeneral, I've reconnoitered in force, and found the enemy both numerious and cantankerous.
THE ORPHEUS C. KERR PAPERS. SERIES 1ROBERT H. NEWELLWORDS RELATED TO CANTANKEROUS
- annoyed
- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- contentious
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- exasperated
- fiery
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- prickly
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- resentful
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- surly
- tense
- testy
- touchy
- bad-tempered
- callous
- cantankerous
- churlish
- contemptible
- dangerous
- despicable
- difficult
- disagreeable
- dishonorable
- down and dirty
- evil
- formidable
- hard
- hard-nosed
- ill-tempered
- infamous
- liverish
- lousy
- malicious
- malign
- nasty
- perfidious
- pesky
- rotten
- rough
- scurrilous
- shameless
- snide
- sour
- the lowest
- treacherous
- troublesome
- ugly
- unfriendly
- unpleasant
- unscrupulous
- vexatious
- vicious
- vile
- bad-tempered
- callous
- cantankerous
- churlish
- contemptible
- dangerous
- despicable
- difficult
- dirty
- disagreeable
- dishonorable
- down
- evil
- formidable
- hard
- hard-nosed
- ignoble
- ill-tempered
- infamous
- knavish
- liverish
- lousy
- low-down and dirty
- malicious
- malign
- nasty
- perfidious
- pesky
- rotten
- rough
- rugged
- scurrilous
- shameless
- sinking
- snide
- sour
- the lowest
- touch
- treacherous
- troublesome
- ugly
- unfriendly
- unpleasant
- unscrupulous
- vexatious
- vicious
- vile
- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- cross
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- intransigent
- locked
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- stubborn
- tenacious
- tough
- tough nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
- awkward
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contrary
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- set in stone
- tenacious
- tough
- tough-nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
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