Thesaurus / cantankerousness
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They felt that Keith, for all his "cantankerousness," might be right.
THE CALICO CATCHARLES MINER THOMPSONHe even added that the fiancé of Miss Cook had given striking proofs of her extreme cantankerousness!
MYSTERIOUS PSYCHIC FORCESCAMILLE FLAMMARIONIn the partial stupors it is seen as active opposition and cantankerousness.
BENIGN STUPORSAUGUST HOCHI suppose it's what Papa used to call his "originality," and Mamma his "cantankerousness," coming out in me.
MY FRIEND THE CHAUFFEURC. N. WILLIAMSON AND A. M. WILLIAMSONIt was like the emancipation of the slaves, and the whole of Scotch cantankerousness came to a height.
HIS MAJESTY BABY AND SOME COMMON PEOPLEIAN MACLARENWhen they have got that, they will have broken the backbone of native cantankerousness.
IN DARKEST AFRICA, VOL. 2; OR, THE QUEST, RESCUE AND RETREAT OF EMIN, GOVERNOR OF EQUATORIAHENRY MORTON STANLEYNaturally it is only in the minor stupors that we see it in well-developed form as active opposition and cantankerousness.
BENIGN STUPORSAUGUST HOCHThoreau with all his cantankerousness came nearer to the new literature.
IN PASTURES GREENPETER MCARTHURNo, it was simply the inherent cantankerousness of little birds which caused them to annoy me.
A CRYSTAL AGEW. H. HUDSONWORDS RELATED TO CANTANKEROUSNESS
- acerbity
- anger
- annoyance
- bad humor
- cantankerousness
- crossness
- dander
- excitability
- fit
- fretfulness
- furor
- fury
- grouchiness
- heat
- hotheadedness
- huffiness
- ill humor
- impatience
- irascibility
- irascibleness
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- low boiling point
- miff
- outburst
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pugnacity
- rage
- resentment
- sensitivity
- short fuse
- slow burn
- snit
- sourness
- spleen
- stew
- sullenness
- surliness
- tantrum
- tartness
- tear
- temperament
- tiff
- tizzy
- touchiness
- wax
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