Definizione monolingua

cantankerous

cantankerous (comparative more cantankerous, superlative most cantankerous)

1. given to or marked by an ill-tempered nature, ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby.
   • 1839, Frasers magazine for town and country, Volume 20, p618

     she is a cantankerous old maid fretting and snarling over the loss of her beauty.

   • 1866 Every Saturday, Volume 2, p355

     The great principle on which the privileges of cantankerous folly and ill-nature found is this: that as we go on through life we grow somewhat cowardly; and if a thing be disagreeable, we just keep out of its way: sometimes by rather shabby expedients.

   • 1947, John Courtenay Trewin, Plays of the year: Volume 47, 195

     I am being cantankerous. Some days I feel so cantankerous I could take a machine-gun into the streets and shoot down the whole population of Hendon Central; I dont know why.

   • 1998, Pauline Chazan, The moral self, 80

     By contrast, cantankerous and churlish people are contemptuously independent of others’ opinions, not caring enough about others and their views.

   • 2004, 386 F. 3d 192 - Jacques v. Dimarzio Inc

     The ""cantankerous"" are those ""marked by ill humor, irritability, and determination to disagree."" Websters New International Dictionary 328 (3d ed.1986).

   • 2004, 386 F. 3d 192 - Jacques v. Dimarzio Inc

     All things being equal, a ""cantankerous"" person or a curmudgeon would be more secure by becoming more unpleasant.

   • 2007, Linda Francis Lee, The Devil in the Junior League, p44

     Nina was thrilled, muttering her cantankerous joy that I was getting out of the house.

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     The cantankerous landlord always grumbled when asked to fix something.

Definizione dizionario cantankerous

	stizzoso
	stubborn, cranky, surly, ill-humored, irritable
	Having a difficult and contrary disposition.

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Altri significati:

Stubborn, bad-tempered, cranky, surly, ill-humored, irritable.