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    cantankerous


    1. ‘The fact that you are alive and as cantankerous as ever


    2. ‘I am not cantankerous


    3. They braved a decade of cantankerous lock operators and a five year delay in a smelly old desert city in Goblin country when a drought dried up a canal for awhile


    4. I'm just a man, a damn cantankerous old one by now, but still just a man


    5. But the girl had her own charm and turn of phrase that he believed would work in her favor and compel even the most cantankerous to give her a chance


    6. prying my way into the heart of a cantankerous person


    7. Some people become loving, kind, and peaceful by nature, while others are known to be angry, cantankerous, or belligerent


    8. He felt sorry for himself, a cantankerous old man


    9. Given Joyce’s cantankerous nature, this wasn’t that much of a surprise to me


    10. What more is there to know, oh noble prince?!” The cantankerous younger cousin debates the prince with sarcastic glee

    11. After that, Corwin took them to South Harbor where the smaller less reputable ships were docked yet the atmosphere was pleasant and none of the bustling dock workers or sailors were cantankerous


    12. Of course, if he had fabricated the entire scenario for some other reason, perhaps to again win the affection of Lady Jane if he was so obsessed with her, there would be many people, not just the Ashburns, who would wish him dead for his foul and cantankerous deeds


    13. At the other end of the scale are those cantankerous pegs which, having been hammered securely into the earth -- using mallet, hatchet or hammer -- refuse to budge when time comes to pull them out


    14. for the cantankerous tone she uses


    15. I could never account for how cantankerous I could get with Alice


    16. harassed parents, who are often not only bewildered by these cantankerous infants but deeply anxious,


    17. She swallowed, feeling more uncomfortable to be standing at this door than she had expected; and not just because Callder was cantankerous when hung over


    18. The night she finally met the cantankerous old fellow was a near disaster


    19. My previous secretary, the widow Sneider, may God have the strength to wrestle with her cantankerous and meddling soul, had recently gone to her grave and there was no other person, man or woman, who presented themselves with the proper qualifications


    20. He’ll find Manfred as old and cantankerous then as he is now, except that he was a different sort of wizard back then

    21. It was manifest in the officers" plump, vulgar, cantankerous wives and noisy, ill-mannered children accompanied by girl child-servants


    22. so mean and cantankerous that no man could ever


    23. Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation


    24. a day older than then I wonder could I get my tongue round any of the Spanish como esta usted muy bien gracias y usted see I havent forgotten it all I thought I had only for the grammar a noun is the name of any person place or thing pity I never tried to read that novel cantankerous Mrs Rubio lent me by Valera with the questions in it all upside down the two ways I always knew wed go away in the end I can tell him the Spanish and he tell me the Italian then hell see Im not so ignorant what a pity he didnt stay Im sure the poor fellow was dead tired and wanted a good sleep badly I could have brought him in his breakfast in bed with a bit of toast so long as I didnt do it on the knife for bad luck or if the woman was going her rounds with the watercress and something nice and tasty there are a few olives in the kitchen he might like I never could bear the look of them in Abrines I could do the criada the room looks all right since I changed it the other way you see something was telling me all the time Id have to introduce myself not knowing me from Adam very funny wouldnt it Im his wife or pretend we were in Spain with him half awake without a Gods notion where he is dos huevos estrellados senor Lord the cracked things come into my head sometimes itd be great fun supposing he stayed with us why not theres the room upstairs empty and Millys bed in the back room he could do his writing and studies at the table in there for all the scribbling he does at it and if he wants to read in bed in the morning like me as hes making the breakfast for I he can make it for 2 Im sure Im not going to take in lodgers off the street for him if he takes a gesabo of a house like this Id love to have a long talk with an intelligent welleducated person Id have to get a nice pair of red slippers like those Turks with the fez used to sell or yellow and a nice semitransparent morning gown that I badly want or a peachblossom dressing jacket like the one long ago in Walpoles only 8/6 or 18/6 Ill just give him one more chance Ill get up early in the morning Im sick of Cohens old bed in any case I might go over to the markets to see all the vegetables and cabbages and tomatoes and carrots and all kinds of splendid fruits all coming in lovely and fresh who knows whod be the 1st man Id meet theyre out looking for it in the morning


    25. “But for now, you’re so cantankerous that I’d rather not speak to


    26. It could be a lot worse, and you know it, you cantankerous old … gentleman


    27. Indeed, they are children both—the one wizened and cantankerous, the other formidable and overbearing, yet each with a brain which has put him in the front rank of his scientific age


    28. “Not true at all,” said Mother Griffith, contradicting Mother White like a cantankerous old Husband who doth not agree with his wife’s Conversation


    29. The gray-suited Chairman of the Federal Reserve danced briefly with the cantankerous Chairman of the Joint Chiefs


    30. A cantankerous, complaining, mischievous, laughing face

    31. In company she sat mute, but at home with her mother and the women of the household she was spiteful and cantankerous


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    Sinônimos para "cantankerous"

    cantankerous crotchety ornery bloody-minded ill-natured crabby cranky disagreeable testy irritable cross