cantankerousness
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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
Yet, for all his cantankerousness, he is part of the British medical-research establishment.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016
Stewart’s cantankerousness also extends to his driving style.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2014
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 Alexander Whyte
