How to use "cantankerous" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "cantankerous" in popular movie and book plots

  • With the help of a sympathetic marshal and Mexican range detective, Billy and his cantankerous slingshot wielding sidekick Fuzzy get the chance to clear Billy's name by helping Ellen Gorman, the owner of a stagecoach line menaced by villains backed by a corrupt sheriff.  - Billy the Kid's Range War
  • Robert Millard has based his industrial kingdom - based on all the noise technologies - thanks to his marriage with the wealthy and cantankerous Irene, he blithely cheat for years.  - Tout doit disparaître
  • Thithi is a dramatic comedy about how three generations of sons react to the death of the oldest in their clan, a man named Century Gowda: a locally renowned, highly cantankerous 101-year-old man.  - Thithi (film)
  • César arranges for a local cantankerous pilot Pierre to make a fly-by of the crash site.  - Belle & Sebastian: The Adventure Continues
  • Ricky Baker (Dennison), a juvenile delinquent who was abandoned by his mother, is taken by child welfare services officer Paula and police officer Andy to live in a remote farm with foster mother Bella and her husband, the cantankerous Hec (Neill).  - Hunt for the Wilderpeople
  • Thorarinn is a poor, cantankerous retired Viking with bad vision.  - Thorstein Staff-Struck
  • Amongst his family are his parents Tom and Sarah, his teenage sister Beth, his aunt and uncle Linda and Howard, their children Howie, Jr, twins Stevie and Jordan, and baby Chrissie, Sarah and Linda’s cantankerous aunt Dorothy, and Tom’s mother Omi, who speaks mostly in German.  - Krampus (film)
  • His career is in shambles, his romantic life comically void, his only real human connection a cantankerous old woman who lives next door.  - Omphalos (film)
  • Forced to give up his land and his only home, cantankerous Texas rancher Red Bovie (Robert Duvall) isn't about to go quietly to the dismal trailer park that's all he can now afford, and instead goes off with his grandson Gally (son of his long-estranged son Jimmy) for a road trip to Old Mexico.  - A Night in Old Mexico
  • A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter.  - Madron (film)
  • He’s a cantankerous English thug in a blood-soaked apron who will log your kills for the Council of Nine while delivering you a healthy, filth-laden dose of sass.  - Bounty Killer (film)
  • To experience this great love, they face much resistance because of social differences and the fact that the bride Zuca be stubborn and cantankerous Tobias pawn.  - Cabocla
  • A publicity stunt by the couple to adopt a British evacuee boy live on air goes wrong and they end up adopting Albert (Moffatt) a rowdy pub landlord's son and his cantankerous Uncle Jerry (Marriott).  - Hi Gang! (film)
  • mr Alan Slater (Ken Stott) is sick with worry and has a cantankerous personality.  - Toast (film)
  • The story also introduces Miss Whitaker, an elderly neighbor whose cantankerous nature frightens the children.  - Zen Ties
  • This, along with a daily harangue from the cantankerous Sam, forces Molly to finally pack a bag and go to son Joel's home, which sets the stage for the family to fight through this bump in the road and get life back on track.  - A Fish in the Bathtub
  • In 10 Things I Hate About You, a 1999 American teen romantic comedy, in which high school students play matchmaker with a "shrew" and her cantankerous male counterpart, while themes of family reconciliation and teen-sex-related psychological angst are explored.  - Shrew (stock character)
  • Sorrowful Jones (Matthau) is a gloomy, cantankerous bookie circa 1934, who is confronted by Carter, a gambler who cannot pay a $10 debt.  - Little Miss Marker (1980 film)
  • Fifteen-year-old Jess, a dedicated swimmer, dotes on her grandfather, a fiercely independent and cantankerous artist.  - River Boy
  • Frank Butler (Oates) is a cantankerous unlucky horse trainer who wins big at the track and buys a horse for his jockey daughter Jo (McNichol) in an attempt to reconcile their troubled relationship.  - My Old Man (film)
  • Chased out of a private estate by cantankerous caretaker, the two boys wander into a dark, mysterious woods just as an eclipse occurs and at the same time a large group of black worshippers are holding a mass baptism ceremony.  - Little Sinner
  • While Clark Kent works his mild-mannered charm on the Bugle's cantankerous publisher Jonah Jameson, Peter Parker has to deal with Steve Lombard, the jock sportscaster who harassed Kent throughout the 1970s.  - Superman and Spider-Man
  • Set in 1929, the story focuses on ace reporter Hildy Johnson, who has just quit his job at the Chicago Examiner to marry his fiancée Esther Stone and write screenplays for her movie mogul father, much to the dismay of unscrupulous and cantankerous editor Walter Burns.  - Windy City (musical)
  • Kinsey’s cantankerous neighbor Gus is badly injured in a fall and hires Solana Rojas, a private nurse, to help him while he recuperates.  - "T" Is for Trespass
  • The cantankerous store owner mr Haskins (Oscar O'Shea) arrives with a handwritten letter slipped under the door, requesting groceries be delivered to a nearby dock.  - The Brute Man
  • This comedy tells the tale of a cantankerous father and his bumbling but well-meaning son who share a joyous obsession for the age-old art of ice fishing.  - Frozen Stupid
  • These include man-eating divorcee Avril (Ferris), who is looking for love; long-suffering Rita (Flynn) and her cantankerous husband Maurice (Clarke); the Reverend Miles Roger (Armstrong), a serial philanderer whose latest escapade is being investigated by the Daily Mirror, and his alcoholic wife (Chancellor); and father and son Dennis (Kelly) and Tim Dunn (Boyd), who have their own reasons for not wanting to be at home during this emotional time.  - Christmas at the Riviera
  • The Stooges operate a local drug store whose landlord, the cantankerous Amos Flint (Emil Sitka), informs them their lease is about to expire.  - Bubble Trouble (film)
  • The Stooges operate a local drugstore whose landlord, the cantankerous Amos Flint (Emil Sitka), informs them their lease is about to expire.  - All Gummed Up
  • The plotline concerns a cat who is tricked by a group of fun-loving mice into taking the blame for the mess they created and getting thrown out of the house into the snow by his cantankerous old owner.  - Ain't We Got Fun (film)
  • His cantankerous but lovable father (Grandpere), two brothers and their wives, and their children all welcome him ("He's Back").  - The Happy Time (musical)
  • The brilliant but cantankerous Professor Benson (Claude Rains), living in an adjacent greenhouse with his dog Gideon, predicts that the Outsider will not strike the Earth but will simply make a close pass—a prediction that no other scientist will endorse.  - Battle of the Worlds
  • Karen is assisted in finding (and uncovering) corrupt politicians by Dale Busch, the cantankerous founder of Open America (played by Denver Pyle in the pilot episode, Charles Lane would later play the role).  - Karen (1975 TV series)
  • The single remaining family member is a cantankerous octenegarian named Edwin Tyndale Flawse.  - The Throwback
  • He takes a seat alongside the old cantankerous driver, Dave (George "Gabby" Hayes), who enjoys giving his two women passengers—overbearing Miss Elizabeth Martin (Elisabeth Risdon) and her kindhearted niece Clara Cardell (Audrey Long)—a rough ride through the mountain roads of the sage country.  - Tall in the Saddle
  • Four retired mobsters Bobby (Richard Dreyfuss) - the straight man leader, Bats (Burt Reynolds) - a cantankerous man with a short fuse and a pacemaker, Mouth (Seymour Cassel) - a silent ladies man many years past his prime, and Brick (Dan Hedaya) - a nice but dimwitted man plan one last crime to save their apartment at a retirement home (the owners are forcing them out with a rent increase so that the apartments can be rented to young, affluent South Beach couples).  - The Crew (2000 film)
  • While visiting the magical world to buy necessities, David has a brief adventure with a prankster Leprechaun, meets a cantankerous potion-selling Hag, and even makes friends with a Faun, who races and plays with the boy before joining his people for an alluring dance in the Forest.  - David and the Phoenix
  • Arthur Bantry tells of a friend, George Pritchard, whose late wife was a difficult and cantankerous semi-invalid looked after by a succession of nurses.  - The Thirteen Problems
  • Pip': a cantankerous capuchin monkey.  - Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails
  • In 1963 Pittsburgh, Rocky Holzcek is a cantankerous 77-year-old Polish-American baker who insists, despite relatives' protests, upon adopting his young grandson Michael when the boy's parents pass away.  - Roommates (1995 film)
  • Later, Quirt learns that cantankerous rancher Frederick Carson (Paul Hurst) has dammed up the stream that runs through the valley, thus draining the Worths' irrigation ditches.  - Angel and the Badman
  • Sophie is a young orphaned girl living in the orphanage of the cantankerous and abusive mrs Clonkers.  - The BFG (1989 film)
  • True to form, the cantankerous old man refuses to let the platoon in, so they decide to try force, using scaling ladders and battering rams, but to no avail.  - Museum Piece
  • Inspired by two elderly men Gardner met in New York City's Central Park, the play focuses on Nat Moyer, a feisty Jew, and Midge Carter, a cantankerous African-American, who spend their days sitting on a bench.  - I'm Not Rappaport
  • She impresses the hotel's staff, with the exception of cantankerous guest services manager Miss Gunther (Susan Kellermann), with her naive manner and forthright kindness, and mingles with some of the other guests, including Matthew Kragen (Timothy Hutton), a self-help guru and coincidentally the owner of the store where she works; his assistant/mistress ms Burns (Alicia Witt); pandering Senator Dillings (Giancarlo Esposito) from her home state of Louisiana; and prominent Congressman Stewart (Michael Nouri).  - Last Holiday (2006 film)
  • The programme stars Karl Howman as the mysterious Mulberry, a man who appears at the household of a cantankerous spinster, Rose Farnaby, and applies for a position as her manservant.  - Mulberry (TV series)
  • Among Yamagami’s crew are the cantankerous Divisional Officer Noboru Osako (Yukijiro Hotaru) and the young Ensign Takeshi Kaido (Taiyo Sugiura).  - Deep Sea Monster Reigo
  • The spirited Jo, a tomboy in search of male companionship, strikes up a friendship with Theodore "Laurie" Laurence (Peter Lawford), the grandson of the March's wealthy, but cantankerous neighbor, James Laurence (C.  - Little Women (1949 film)
  • Despite being as busy with her own life as the others, Eve is the only one of the three who deals with the long term hospitalization of their cantankerous seventy-nine-year-old father, Lou Mozell, when he enters the early stages of dementia, and the associated outcomes of that hospitalization.  - Hanging Up
  • At the celebration that follows, the recovering Knemon awakes from his sleep as cantankerous as ever, and the cook and his friend have much fun tormenting him until he agrees to go out and dance and sing with the others.  - Dyskolos
  • He has an interview with the cantankerous Admiral, who wants two of his officers and a third crew member to sail back to England on Surprise.  - The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
  • Villard and senior Resistance leader Spinet (Paul Bonifas), "I won't waste lives on paintings," he has a change of heart after a cantankerous elderly engineer, Papa Boule (Michel Simon), is executed for trying to sabotage the train on his own.  - The Train (1964 film)
  • Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald, a waitress from a Missouri town in the Ozarks, shows up in the Hit Pit, a run-down Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn, an old, cantankerous boxing trainer.  - Million Dollar Baby
  • The novel takes the form of a long review by a somewhat cantankerous unnamed Editor for the English Publication Fraser's Magazine (in which the novel was first serialized without any distinction of the content as fictional) who is upon request, reviewing the fictional German book Clothes, Their Origin and Influence by the fictional philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh (Professor of "Things in General" at Weissnichtwo University).  - Sartor Resartus
  • The soldiers are inexperienced and their cantankerous sergeant (Jay Flippen) does not know how to fight Indians.  - Winchester '73
  • Backed by a Chinese dentist, he obtains a ship and sets about harvesting copra while fending off cantankerous native chieftains and ambitious German empire-builders.  - His Majesty O'Keefe
  • Philip takes on a temporary placement at a hospital with dr South, an old, cantankerous physician whose wife is dead and whose daughter has broken off contact with him.  - Of Human Bondage
  • He is sent to interview the cantankerous Professor Challenger, who has become notorious for claims made about his recent expedition to South America.  - The Lost World (Conan Doyle novel)
  • Baker must deal with the vulgar outlaw Johnny Cobb and his ruthless sidekick Angel Moon, while also opposing his plan is the cantankerous Colonel Morgan, who is on the cusp of retirement from theS.  - Something Big (film)
  • Other recruits soon follow, including battlefield gravedigger John Rawlins, timid freeman Jupiter Sharts, cantankerous slave escapee Silas Trip, and a teenage drummer boy who is mute.  - Glory (1989 film)
  • There's biologist Andrew Steyn, who is studying the local animals; Kate Thompson, the newly hired village school teacher; a band of guerrillas led by Sam Boga, who are being pursued by government troops after an unsuccessful attack; a safari tour guide named Jack Hind; and Steyn's assistant and mechanic, M'pudi (who is maintaining his cantankerous Land Rover).  - The Gods Must Be Crazy
  • The story is about a young orphaned girl named Sophie, living in a girl's orphanage run by the cantankerous and abusive mrs Clonkers.  - The BFG
  • His sister, Tabitha Bramble, is a foolish and cantankerous spinster who uses the expedition as an excuse to search for a husband.  - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • Encouraged by Walter, the Dude approaches the other Jeffrey Lebowski (David Huddleston), the eponymous "Big Lebowski", a cantankerous elderly wheelchair-using millionaire, to seek compensation for his ruined rug.  - The Big Lebowski

Example sentences for "cantankerous" in interesting articles

  • SPMs are systems for users, PDMs are systems for developers, and LPMs are often sorta both, but if they’re not backed by a proper PDM, the happy hybrid rapidly devolves into a cantankerous chimaera.PDMs, on the other hand, are quite content without LPMs, though in practice it typically makes sense to bundle the two together.  - So you want to write a package manager
  • Wingo and Keith Cowing, the editor of NASA Watch, a sometimes cantankerous website covering news and gossip about the space agency, had previously collaborated on a project that resurrected equipment to read 50-year-old magnetic tapes, extracting high-resolution images taken by NASA lunar orbiters in the 1960s - a task NASA had also regarded as infeasible.  - 36 Years On, Zombie Ship to Come Home from Space
  • If the player's spell contains even a single faulty incantation, the compiler will respond with a torrent of abuse and spells of its own; the player must piece together clues contained within compiler's response to determine how they went wrong. You're In A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, All Alike In the hardest mode, a second gatekeeper, the even more cantankerous "linker," must also be satisfied.  - Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game
  • The library’s origins date back to 1718, when, after much cantankerous debate over the school’s prospective location, New Haven beat out two rival towns in its bid to host the institution.  - Why Yale Library decided to preserve 3000 horror and exploitation movies on VHS
  • HOW TO CALIBRATE YOUR OVEN You can make that cantankerous contraption in your kitchen more predictable Photo: Tyson Stole/Modernist Cuisine Preheat and Measure: Preheat the oven, then clip the oven-safe probe of a digital thermometer to a rack.  - Recipe for a Better Oven
  • It pervades every part of our world and will do for rest of human history. And this is a world that women occupy. Women who have their own capacities and ambitions to succeed and to make their impact in their own way. Tech isn’t some out-of-the-way industry, whose poor excuses for a lack of self-reflexivity we can ignore (like a racist, cantankerous grandfather). Tech is building the future we will all live in and will live in.  - VC Pavel Curda Admits He Pestered Woman Entrepreneur For Sex In “Deal” Email

Meaning of "cantankerous" in English

  • having a difficult and contrary disposition
  • stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate

Meaning of "cantankerous" in Hindi

  • झगडालू ( Jhagadalu, jhagadaaloo, zhagadalu)
  • चिडचिडा ( Chidachida, chidachidaa)
  • चिड़चिड़ा ( Chidachida, chidachidaa)
  • चिड़चिड़ा
  • झगड़ालू ( Jhagadalu, jhagadaaloo, zhagadalu)
  • बिगड़ैल ( Bigadail)

Synonyms of "cantankerous"

  • crotchety
  • bloody minded
  • ornery

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