What is the meaning of cantankerous?

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adjective

  • Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate."unions... Have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders- Spectator
  • Having a difficult and contrary disposition."a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady- Dorothy Sayers
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