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How to use cantankerousness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word cantankerousness? Here are some examples.

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Yet for all her cantankerousness, the woman had fed her and given her a job, and for the first while a place to live.
Giving readings was seen as an embarrassment, and generations of German poets were proud to fumble around in sullen cantankerousness.
Baselitz has a reputation for cantankerousness, but the Halls' visit went well.
Yet, for all his cantankerousness, he is part of the British medical-research establishment.
It amuses primarily thanks to Newhook, largely because he plays his character with the lightest touch, investing Vallis with a believable cantankerousness.
What starts out as a humourous battle between cantankerousness and impatience grows into a touching story about friendship, honesty and caring.
I know this makes me sound like a curmudgeon, but now that Andy Rooney has died I feel someone has to take up the mantle of cantankerousness.
For all its cantankerousness and venality, the Duma is a definite improvement on the monochrome puppet legislatures of the past. This election is not just for show.
Examples from Classical Literature
It was like the emancipation of the slaves, and the whole of Scotch cantankerousness came to a height.
In the partial stupors it is seen as active opposition and cantankerousness.
Naturally it is only in the minor stupors that we see it in well-developed form as active opposition and cantankerousness.
His face has the canine cantankerousness of a mutt on David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks.
It is impossible to overstate the pettiness, the cantankerousness and the self-serving use of their proteges by these deities for their own ends.
In light of the particularity of the issue, perhaps the cantankerousness of the current research debate is to be expected.
Thoreau with all his cantankerousness came nearer to the new literature.
On the flight back from Scotland last week we sat in front of a chap who took the concept of the Grumpy Old Man to hitherto unimagined levels of cantankerousness.
I had happened to mention that the Polynesian dances were superior to the Papuan, and this McAllister had denied, for no other reason than his cantankerousness.
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