0 quarrelsome -- perengus
a cantankerous old man.
So while there are many pertinent local observations in this book, its overall argument seems too ostentatiously cantankerous to be entirely convincing.
When these reactions are particularly intense, the patient can become morose, withdrawn, hypercritical, cantankerous, or openly defiant.
Nor are such comments just the product of cantankerous or ' envious ' minds.
This essay is written in that cantankerous spirit.
A report earlier this week said that people do not get cantankerous as they grow older; they are born that way.
I would say that we are not pressing this for purely cantankerous reasons.
It was not a wish to be cantankerous but a perfectly genuine and sincere view.
I wish we could put some of these cantankerous passengers where they could do some hard work.