| She mumbled cantankerously as she sat up and reached to turn it off. |
| Seeing the happy newly-weds who throng Lucignano, Miller grumbles cantankerously about the horrors that wedlock has in store for all these unknowing fools. |
| The stuttering official nationalist narrative is subjected to cantankerously vituperative reviews and criticisms. |
| We didn't exactly run the school, but there were many things that were left to us, and we debated over them cantankerously. |
| An emotionally confused daughter, a computer-recluse son and a cantankerously flatulent grandfather raise family bickering to an art. |
| As the weeks went by, Negrych sent me hundreds of e-mails, cantankerously relating bits of news, data, or commentary. |
