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
Kasich’s strategists maintain that the governor’s cantankerousness is proof of his unvarnished authenticity.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2016
Yet, for all his cantankerousness, he is part of the British medical-research establishment.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2016
They felt that Keith, for all his "cantankerousness," might be right.
From The Calico Cat by Thompson, Charles Miner
