| Cantankerous |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Mar 2026 |
| Cranky |
USA Today |
01 Feb 2026 |
| Cantankerous |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Sep 2025 |
| Stubborn |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Jul 2025 |
| Surly, tough to deal with (6) |
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| Mean, to Pappy Yokum |
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| Cantankerous |
LA Times Daily |
12 Jan 2025 |
| Stubbornly mean |
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| What is an American colloquialism for cantankerous? (6) |
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| Not readily bent |
Newsday |
27 Jul 2024 |
| Like Scrooge |
LA Times Daily |
24 May 2024 |
| Very stubborn |
Newsday |
24 Apr 2024 |
| Cantankerous |
Universal |
01 Mar 2024 |
| Cantankerous |
New York Times |
07 Sep 2023 |
| Cantankerous |
New York Times |
23 Aug 2023 |
| Cantankerous |
Eugene Sheffer |
05 Aug 2023 |
| Cantankerous |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Jul 2023 |
| Stubborn |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Feb 2023 |
| Bad-tempered and combative |
New York Times |
08 Nov 2022 |
| Stubborn and mean |
Newsday |
10 May 2022 |
| Disagreeable |
LA Times Daily |
19 Dec 2021 |
| Cantankerous |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Nov 2021 |
| Stubborn |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Nov 2021 |
| Like a human crab |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Cantankerous |
LA Times Daily |
07 Aug 2021 |
| Grumpy |
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| Cantankerous |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Apr 2021 |
| Cantankerous individual welcoming king to railway |
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| Bad-tempered |
USA Today |
19 May 2020 |
| Headstrong |
New York Times |
19 Apr 2020 |
| Difficult |
LA Times Daily |
12 Apr 2020 |
| Difficult |
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| Not exactly agreeable |
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| Mean and stubborn |
Newsday |
01 Dec 2019 |
| Cantankerous |
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| Cantankerous |
LA Times Daily |
12 Nov 2019 |
| Having a difficult and contrary disposition |
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| Grouchy |
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| Hard to get along with |
USA Today |
02 Aug 2019 |
| Cantankerous |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Jun 2019 |
| Hard to get along with |
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| Truculent |
Universal |
16 Oct 2018 |
| Like a grumpy old man |
USA Today |
10 Sep 2018 |
| Disorderly lad out of an orderly set being hard to please |
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| Hard to budge |
Newsday |
19 Aug 2018 |
| Tough to deal with |
USA Today |
13 May 2018 |
| Like a mule I put across river by track |
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| Tough to deal with |
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| Like a grumpy old man |
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| Truculent |
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| Like an old cuss |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Nov 2017 |
| Very stubborn |
Newsday |
22 Nov 2017 |
| Mean-spirited |
Newsday |
08 Jun 2017 |
| Crotchety |
Premier Sunday |
23 Apr 2017 |
| Like an old cuss |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Jan 2017 |
| Ill-tempered |
Newsday |
20 Nov 2016 |
| Cantankerous |
Newsday |
02 Nov 2016 |
| Cantankerous |
Universal |
09 Oct 2016 |
| Ill-tempered |
LA Times Daily |
04 Sep 2016 |
| Ill-tempered |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Cantankerous |
Family Time |
05 Jul 2015 |
| Cantankerous |
USA Today |
08 Jun 2015 |
| Unlikely to bend |
Newsday |
21 Mar 2015 |
| Stubborn and mean |
Newsday |
03 Mar 2015 |
| Cantankerous |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Jan 2015 |
| Unlikely to bend |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Stubborn and mean |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Awkward king leaving islands, seizing queen |
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| Yosemite Sam adjective |
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| Stubborn |
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| Very testy |
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| Like a mule, stereotypically |
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| Meaner than a junkyard dog |
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| Easily perturbed |
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| Not at all nice |
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| Irascible |
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| Ill-tempered |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Combative |
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| Bad tempered |
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| Really testy |
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| Ill-natured |
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| Downright mean |
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| Having a mean streak |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Like Yosemite Sam |
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| Having a mean streak |
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| Not at all good-humored |
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| Pig-headed |
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| Stubborn as a mule |
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| Not at all good-humored |
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| Pig-headed |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Ill-tempered |
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| Ill-tempered |
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| Crotchety |
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| Mean |
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| Like a cantankerous old coot |
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| Difficult |
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| Hard to get along with |
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| Like a junkyard dog |
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| Mean |
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| Stubborn |
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| Stubborn |
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| Mean and nasty |
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| Not exactly agreeable |
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| Ill-tempered |
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| Crotchety and cantankerous |
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| Mean as a snake |
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| Surly |
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| Mean and nasty |
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| Surly |
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| Pigheaded |
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| Stubborn as a mule |
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| Mean-tempered |
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| Ill-natured |
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| Splenetic |
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| Captious |
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| Mean-spirited |
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| Crabbed |
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| Hard to please |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Surly |
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| Ill-tempered |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Curmudgeonly |
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| Mean or stubborn |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Stubborn as a mule |
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| Stubborn |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Mean |
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| Not at all nice |
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| Pig-headed |
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| Obstinate |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Challenging or cruel |
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| Bad-tempered |
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| Difficult to deal with |
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| Stubborn |
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| Crabby |
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| Curmudgeonlike |
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| Mean-spirited |
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| Mean as a snake |
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| Cantankerous |
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| Obstinate |
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| Mean-tempered |
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| Obstinate |
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| Mean |
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| Bad tempered |
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| Contumacious |
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| Like mean critters |
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| Mulish |
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| Like obstinate critters |
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| Cussed |
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| Mean, as a critter |
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| Like a stubborn critter |
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| Mean, as a varmint |
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| Bullheaded. |
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| Games magazine's "The World's Most ___ Crossword" |
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| Cantankerous. |
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| Mean as a critter. |
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| Obstinate: Dial. |
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| Hard to manage: Dial. |
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| Ill-natured |
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| Stubborn; set in one's ways. |
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