| On the other hand Bach, despite his cantankerously quarrelsome nature, is seen as a genius superior even to Mozart. |
| The stuttering official nationalist narrative is subjected to cantankerously vituperative reviews and criticisms. |
| Batting around Russell's cantankerously witty dialogue, their sense of timing is terrific – like a tennis match building up through the registers of nervy, defensive and outright enraged. |
| In a newspaper interview before his arrival, he had cantankerously insisted that he wouldn't discuss the Portland Building in his speech. |
| She mumbled cantankerously as she sat up and reached to turn it off. |
| We didn't exactly run the school, but there were many things that were left to us, and we debated over them cantankerously. |
