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

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

And Taleb's cantankerousness, his propensity for picking fights, and for taking stands does also seem to be the source of his greatest triumphs.

From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2012

She points out the mischievous foibles, the little meannesses, the spirit of cantankerousness and strife, which long experience of the cloister had shown her were the besetting sins of the conventual life. 

From Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings by Whyte, Alexander