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
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
Stewart’s cantankerousness also extends to his driving style.
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2014
They felt that Keith, for all his "cantankerousness," might be right.
From The Calico Cat by Thompson, Charles Miner
