cantankerous
भांडखोर
definition
adjective
a crusty, cantankerous old man
bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative.
translation of 'cantankerous'
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example
Like all of us, he could be grumpy and 'cantankerous' , but he was never mean-spirited in deed or thought.
His 'cantankerous' old mother and frustrated spinster sister are a constant drain on his increasingly shaky resources.
Much like the late-lamented, 'cantankerous' Mr Dahl, most children revel in the gleefully grotesque and delightfully disgusting.
He's a 'cantankerous' old man, set in his ways and prone to sulking to get what he wants.
To anybody that could read no deeper than the physical, he was just as grumpy and 'cantankerous' as always.
They used to do a sketch as two 'cantankerous' old dons forever inventing new ways to insult one another.
The 'cantankerous' old lady she had worked for for six years had been good to her, in her gruff way.
I blurted out to my kind friend that I had absolutely no interest in that 'cantankerous' , melancholy old woman!
She was a 'cantankerous' old dear and as deaf as a doorpost, but we had always been on friendly terms, and I had never quarrelled with her.
There are no doubt wise and astute teenagers, just as there are foolish and 'cantankerous' old folks.
This isn't like the 'cantankerous' old Johnboy we've come to know and loathe, and frankly I find this a bit disturbing, but a welcome change.
His dad is the 'cantankerous' black sheep of the mob.
He can be overbearing, 'cantankerous' and obnoxious at times.
When the 'cantankerous' old miller dies of a heart attack, he bequeaths his property to his eldest son, his donkey to the second, and the mill cat to his youngest son Mark.
The only other person from my group who was there was Ernie (the old 'cantankerous' fool).
Now we have responsibility for my 88 year old 'cantankerous' maiden aunt who suffers from moderately severe dementia and resides in a rest home.
Holmes investigates the possible spontaneous combustion of a 'cantankerous' old man.
He was always known as Captain Jessie, a 'cantankerous' old duffer nearing his eightieth year.
Later, though, Sammy became more 'cantankerous' .
And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as 'cantankerous' curmudgeons.
What of the televangelists who promise to cure everything from 'cantankerousness' to cancer, in exchange for a generous ‘love offering‘?
She mumbled 'cantankerously' as she sat up and reached to turn it off.
We didn't exactly run the school, but there were many things that were left to us, and we debated over them 'cantankerously' .
I think modern parents will empathise with him, I really do, if people really listen to this play, but because of his attitude and his 'cantankerousness' he may not get sympathy.
Yet for all her 'cantankerousness' , the woman had fed her and given her a job, and for the first while a place to live.
In a newspaper interview before his arrival, he had 'cantankerously' insisted that he wouldn't discuss the Portland Building in his speech.
It amuses primarily thanks to Newhook, largely because he plays his character with the lightest touch, investing Vallis with a believable 'cantankerousness' .
On the other hand Bach, despite his 'cantankerously' quarrelsome nature, is seen as a genius superior even to Mozart (a rather futile comparison hardly worth attempting).
Giving readings was seen as an embarrassment, and generations of German poets were proud to fumble around in sullen 'cantankerousness' .
In the hope of warming up that body, MoMA is now publishing Positif: 50 Years, the first anthology in English of reviews from the 'cantankerously' venerable French journal.
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