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Word "CANTANKEROUS" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
Synonyms:
bloody-minded

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
having a difficult and contrary disposition
Synonyms:
crotchety, ornery
Examples:
a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady

Crossword Clues for CANTANKEROUS

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Irascible The Telegraph Quick 04 Jun 2025
Irascible, grouchy (12)
Crabby old American holding up container vessel The Times Quick Cryptic 18 Mar 2025
Can petrol ship circle American who's being crotchety? (12)
Quarrelsome Mirror Classic 01 Dec 2024
Contrary(12)
Prison ship getting old American irritable The Times Quick Cryptic 01 Aug 2024
Quarrelsome Mirror Classic 02 Jul 2024
Cross-grained, it got stuck on an ear like this (12)
Somehow cause Ron to surround the vehicle, being quarrelsome (12)
A cur's taken on manoeuvres, bad-tempered The Times Quick Cryptic 05 Mar 2024
Short-tempered The Guardian Speedy 24 Dec 2023
Bad-tempered, grouchy (12)
Far-from-jolly tar sunk canoe at sea (12)
Crotchety and ill-tempered Mirror Tea Time 07 Dec 2023
Grumpy about intelligence gathering vessel? The Times Cryptic 31 Aug 2023
Grumpy The Telegraph Quick 22 Jun 2022
Ill-tempered old American on ship behind vessel
Irascible recreating Saturn on cake The Times Cryptic 05 Jan 2022
Crusty old American on container ship?
Cross river docked by container ship The Telegraph Cryptic 10 Dec 2020
Irritable The Telegraph Quick 12 Nov 2020
Grumpy The Telegraph Quick 22 Nov 2019
Cross river shortly after two vessels
Bloody-minded The Telegraph Quick 02 Feb 2019
Grouchy old American chasing tin vessel The Telegraph Cryptic 31 Oct 2018
Short-tempered
Crusty representation of Saturn on cake
Stubbornly obstructive The Telegraph Quick 20 May 2017
'Ratty' making sure a knot can be undone?
Bad-tempered worker beset by ulcer, old American The Telegraph Cryptic 10 Sep 2016
Tone a crank cultivated with American that's irascible The Telegraph Toughie 19 May 2015
Two things containing oil by river largely making one grouchy
Irritable about intelligence surrounding large ship
Grumpy
Scrooge-like.
Ornery.
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