cantankerous in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Being characterised a hot-tempered and cantankerous official as a young man, he gradually emerged as a brilliant and adroit man of the world.
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Patients in this subtype are often hypochondriacal, cantankerous and irritable, and guilt-ridden and self-condemning.
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She is no longer the pretty girl she was, but appears cantankerous and uncaring.
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He was cantankerous, bossy and occasionally showed a streak of ruthlessness.
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She is also very proud of her abilities and can be very cantankerous when slighted, which may indicate a similar approach with other men.
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He has a cantankerous personality but is soft beneath the gruff exterior.
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His problem, it turns out, is that he is an unscrupulous, treacherous, selfish, greedy, lying, thieving scoundrel, and at the same time an irascible, ornery, cantankerous, ill-mannered, bad-tempered old grouch.
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A self-described cantankerous old man who's lived alone a lot of years.
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Coupled with his bad reaction to celebrity, and his bouts of depression, these addictions caused him to be cantankerous, confrontational, argumentative, and controlling.
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He immediately returned to his old, cantankerous self.
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