cantankerous
దుస్వభావి
definition
adjective
a crusty, cantankerous old man
bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative.
translation of 'cantankerous'
దుష్ట స్వభావం కలిగి ఉండటం,
దుస్వభావి
example
And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as 'cantankerous' curmudgeons.
They used to do a sketch as two 'cantankerous' old dons forever inventing new ways to insult one another.
Holmes investigates the possible spontaneous combustion of a 'cantankerous' old man.
His 'cantankerous' old mother and frustrated spinster sister are a constant drain on his increasingly shaky resources.
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.
There are no doubt wise and astute teenagers, just as there are foolish and 'cantankerous' old folks.
Like all of us, he could be grumpy and 'cantankerous' , but he was never mean-spirited in deed or thought.
He can be overbearing, 'cantankerous' and obnoxious at times.
The 'cantankerous' old lady she had worked for for six years had been good to her, in her gruff way.
Now we have responsibility for my 88 year old 'cantankerous' maiden aunt who suffers from moderately severe dementia and resides in a rest home.
He was always known as Captain Jessie, a 'cantankerous' old duffer nearing his eightieth year.
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.
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.
He's a 'cantankerous' old man, set in his ways and prone to sulking to get what he wants.
I blurted out to my kind friend that I had absolutely no interest in that 'cantankerous' , melancholy old woman!
His dad is the 'cantankerous' black sheep of the mob.
To anybody that could read no deeper than the physical, he was just as grumpy and 'cantankerous' as always.
Much like the late-lamented, 'cantankerous' Mr Dahl, most children revel in the gleefully grotesque and delightfully disgusting.
Later, though, Sammy became more 'cantankerous' .
The only other person from my group who was there was Ernie (the old 'cantankerous' fool).
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.
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.
Yet for all her 'cantankerousness' , the woman had fed her and given her a job, and for the first while a place to live.
She mumbled 'cantankerously' as she sat up and reached to turn it off.
What of the televangelists who promise to cure everything from 'cantankerousness' to cancer, in exchange for a generous ‘love offering‘?
Giving readings was seen as an embarrassment, and generations of German poets were proud to fumble around in sullen 'cantankerousness' .
We didn't exactly run the school, but there were many things that were left to us, and we debated over them 'cantankerously' .
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).
In a newspaper interview before his arrival, he had 'cantankerously' insisted that he wouldn't discuss the Portland Building in his speech.
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