| I got too close to one old cantankerous grandaddy and he grunted a telling off and moved just enough to send me skeltering. |
| He's watching, but also commenting from the sidelines in an amusingly cantankerous and sometimes doleful way. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Now we have responsibility for my 88 year old cantankerous maiden aunt who suffers from moderately severe dementia and resides in a rest home. |
| Much like the late-lamented, cantankerous Mr Dahl, most children revel in the gleefully grotesque and delightfully disgusting. |
