Ornery.
My cantankerous husband constantly argues with me about everything. Cantankerous is a fantastic word, by the way.
Crotchety or cantankerous.
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?
Cantankerous is an adjective. The adverb form is cantankerously; the noun form is cantankerousness.
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!
cantankerous
irritable, cranky, testy, touchy, irascible, crabby, snappish, cantankerous, choleric
stubborn, cranky or sore
Angry, annoyed, cantankerous, irascible, irritable, surly, navigate, span, transverse, bisect, intercross, intertwine, blend, interbreed, mingle...
cantankerous*,cross, crusty, discontented, grumbling,grumpy*, ill-tempered,irascible,peevish,petulant,querulous, snappy, sulky,surly, testy