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
Kasich’s strategists maintain that the governor’s cantankerousness is proof of his unvarnished authenticity.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2016
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
"Not often; but the regular people usually make up for it in—well, in cantankerousness; that's about the only word that will fit it."
From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde
