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cantankerousness









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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

Our father, with all his cantankerousness, was a humorist, and Sati’s idea was that during this time our father was considering the family grief and having a good laugh.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 30, 2019

Whether or not these writers were aiming for online immortality, they’re mixing and matching certain elements that produce it: humor, optimism, authenticity, young love, elderly cantankerousness, and tweet-sized life lessons.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2015

Some of that was blunt cantankerousness, and, as Mr. Itzkoff puts it, Mr. Chayefsky’s “familiar, cynical form.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2014

He even added that the fiancé of Miss Cook had given striking proofs of her extreme cantankerousness!

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion


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