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Cantankerous

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Adjective

1. bloody-minded, cantankerous

stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate

Example Sentences:
'unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders'

2. cantankerous, crotchety, ornery

having a difficult and contrary disposition

Example Sentences:
'a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Cantankerous

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adjective
quarrelsome; irascible

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Cantankerous

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adjective
bad-tempered; quarrelsome

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Cantankerous

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adj.
1. Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable: disliked her cantankerous landlord.
2. Difficult to handle: "had to use liquid helium, which is supercold, costly and cantankerous" (Brad Pokorny).

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