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 Translation for 'cantankerous' from English to French
ADJ   cantankerous | more cantankerous | most cantankerous
SYNO bloody-minded | cantankerous | crotchety | ...
morose {adj}cantankerous
rétif {adj}cantankerous
grincheux {adj}cantankerous
bougon {adj} [fam.]cantankerous
acariâtre {adj} [péj.]cantankerous
teigneux {adj} [fam.] [hargneux]cantankerous
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Usage Examples English
  • She adds a new twist to the old art of ventriloquism. Rhodes' main squeeze is a cantankerous 1920s gentleman named Cecil Sinclaire.
  • Gregory L. Williams played Michael Crutchfield, a cantankerous homicide detective.
  • A cantankerous father changes his character when a young man who marries one of his daughters revolutionises the household.
  • In 1909, he published his reminiscences, "Notes from a Painter's Life", a valuable if somewhat cantankerous source-book.
  • Wilmot played a supporting role in the BBC One drama "Ripper Street", as the cantankerous bearded Police Sergeant Donald Atherton.

  • Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, but above all, the cantankerous Henry Sweet.
  • In his autobiographical comic "Peepshow", Joe Matt examines his inadequate social skills, his addiction to pornography, his cantankerous relationship with his then-girlfriend Trish, and the lingering effects of his Catholic upbringing.
  • Not generally known, about 40% of these 312s were equipped with vacuum secondary CARTER WCFBs. They are a highly desired version, as the Holley "teapots" were cantankerous.
  • Antonín Rypar is an old, cantankerous university professor who lives alone. One day he finds a Vietnamese named Song on his roof, and decides to take him in.
  • Known as a cantankerous old man, Ambassador Harriman had a reputation as a man who inspired either "grudging respect" or "outright hostility" in others.

  • 17. Chimbinde meaning a cantankerous person, cruel.
  • A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.
  • Frank Butler is a cantankerous unlucky horse trainer who wins big at the track and buys a horse for his jockey daughter Jo in an attempt to reconcile their troubled relationship.
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