cantankerous
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Adjective
Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative,
/kanˈtaNGkərəs/,
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Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative,
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Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative
- - a crusty, cantankerous old man
Web Definitions:
- bloody-minded: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator
- having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
- (cantankerously) in a bad mood; "he answered her cantankerously"
- given to or marked by an ill-tempered nature, ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby
- ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable
- "Cantankerous" was coined by Stephen Wilson in W89 to designate a certain class of non-orientable regular map.
- (1) easily angered and difficult to get along with; (2) difficult to work with or use