cantankerous 的定义
- disagreeable to deal with; contentious; peevish: a cantankerous, argumentative man.
cantankerous 近义词
difficult, crabby
更多cantankerous例句
- The very things that make this the kind of book you could hand to a cop, a neighbor or a cantankerous uncle may make it unsatisfying for more sophisticated readers.
- To Chicago he was still two-fisted, hard-drinking, cantankerous.
- I still remember how disappointed I was by this cantankerous book.
- First up, a classic profile of the cantankerous but lovable Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko.
- The most dangerous animal to encounter when walking, I discovered, is not a lion but a cantankerous male buffalo.
- It was ugly, cantankerous, simple enough for any farmhand to understand and fix, and indomitable.
- As a rule even the most cantankerous women are placable after afternoon tea.
- It's no wonder he drinks, hitched up to a cantankerous old hyena like that.
- Some of the men I have to deal with are as bat-blind as they are cantankerous.
- Every one recognises that cantankerous obstructiveness would only make matters worse, nay, absolutely intolerable.
- I turned away to pay off my taxi, the driver of which was very cantankerous and abusive over his fare.