He was such a cantankerous person that nobody liked to invite him to their parties.
To be in a cantankerous state means to be angered or annoyed about something. An example sentence using the phrase would be "Mr. Johnson was in a cantankerous state after being stuck in traffic for 2 hours."
She is just old and cantankerous!
The cantankerous curmudgeon callously cursed at the crying children. "Why, you cantankerous old fool!", said the wench. How long do you have to study to be so cantankerous?
Sometimes my mother can be very cantankerous she always tries to start fighting with me.
The cantankerous, grizzled old prospector tore his dusty hat off of his head and threw it on the ground. This old bloodhound can be cantankerous, at times.
The cantankerous old man slammed the door in the face of the census taker.Some people think that I'm cantankerous, but it's just that I know I'm right.She is just old and cantankerous!
My cantankerous husband constantly argues with me about everything. Cantankerous is a fantastic word, by the way.
Cantankerous is an adjective. The adverb form is cantankerously; the noun form is cantankerousness.
Having come from an affluent family and married into one even more so, she was cantankerous by nature, but as an elderly widow she had become positively cruel, and the only person who could deal with her was her amiable and wholly benign granddaughter Elena.The two affluent young brothers, their cantankerous grandmother, and their amiable Brazilian babysitter waited outside the museum for their driver to pick them up.
Not really, timid means easy going and relaxed, whilst cantankerous means 'grumpy' and unwilling.
cantankerous
Ornery.