cantankerousness
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Pregnant at 23, married not long after, she had endured 14 years of bossy, broody cantankerousness from a man to whom marriage was “a tourniquet I didn’t think we could live without.”
From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022
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
No, it was simply the inherent cantankerousness of little birds which caused them to annoy me.
From A Crystal Age by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
