cantankerousness

Seeing Cox in “Orange Is the New Black” inspired him to approach her to collaborate on a new version of a story about a widower cohabiting with their adult child, one that replaces Fred Sanford’s all-purpose cantankerousness with acceptance and affection.

Russell also quietly suffered from mounting health problems and an all-around cantankerousness, possibly stemming from autism and/or undiagnosed bipolar disorder.

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.”

A New Yorker puts up with everything that is wrong here — inherent inequality, inherent racism, maddening inertia, even sheer cantankerousness — but still finds it alluring.

Sanders can aestheticize his practiced cantankerousness for laughs and sympathy without anyone asking if its a put-on.