cantankerousness
Example Sentences
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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
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
But what Cherry often articulates, perhaps even without knowing it, isn’t just cantankerousness, but rather a kind of unintentional airing of the NHL’s core principles.
From The Guardian • May 8, 2019
They felt that Keith, for all his "cantankerousness," might be right.
From The Calico Cat by Thompson, Charles Miner
