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cantankerous 音标拼音: [kænt'æŋkɚəs] a. 心地不良的,爱吵架的 心地不良的,爱吵架的 cantankerous adj 1: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; " unions... have never been as bloody- minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator [ synonym: { bloody- minded}, { cantankerous}] 2: having a difficult and contrary disposition; " a cantankerous and venomous- tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [ synonym: { cantankerous}, { crotchety}, { ornery}] Cantankerous \ Can* tan" ker* ous\, a. Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [ Colloq.] -- { Can* tan" ker* ous* ly}, adv. -- { Can* tan" ker* ous* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] The cantankerous old maiden aunt. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] Cantar60 Moby Thesaurus words for " cantankerous": bad- tempered, bearish, bilious, bitchy, cankered, choleric, churlish, contrary, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross- grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, difficult, disagreeable, dour, dyspeptic, excitable, feisty, fractious, froward, grouchy, grumpy, huffish, huffy, ill- conditioned, ill- natured, ill- tempered, irascible, irritable, liverish, mean, morose, ornery, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, stuffy, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, tetchy, touchy, ugly, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish, wayward, wrongheaded
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