Adjective: cantankerous kan'tang-ku-rus
- Having a difficult and contrary disposition
"a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady";
- crotchety, ornery [N. Amer, informal]
- Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
"unions...have never been as cantankerous about demarcation as the shipbuilders";
- bloody-minded [Brit]
See also: ill-natured, obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate
Encyclopedia: Cantankerous