cantankerousness
Example Sentences
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Sanders can aestheticize his practiced cantankerousness for laughs and sympathy without anyone asking if its a put-on.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2020
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
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
It was her night to go home and sleep, but Naomi's words haunted her, although she believed they were born of pure "cantankerousness."
From Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
