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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bad-tempered, bearish, bilious, bitchy, cankered, choleric, churlish, contrary, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, difficult, disagreeable, dour, dyspeptic, excitable, feisty, fractious, froward, grouchy, grumpy, huffish, huffy, ill-conditioned, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, liverish, mean, morose, ornery, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, stuffy, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, tetchy, touchy, ugly, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish, wayward, wrongheaded
Dictionary Results for cantankerous:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
cantankerous
    adj 1: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate;
           "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about
           demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator [syn:
           bloody-minded, cantankerous]
    2: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous
       and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn:
       cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cantankerous \Can*tan"ker*ous\, a.
   Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [Colloq.] --
   Can*tan"ker*ous*ly, adv. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]

         The cantankerous old maiden aunt.        --Thackeray.
   [1913 Webster] Cantar

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