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
Yet, for all his cantankerousness, he is part of the British medical-research establishment.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2016
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
Moreover, this entity, this personality, this spirit, has his individual will, his caprices, his cantankerousness, and sometimes acts in opposition to our own thoughts.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
