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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as cantankerous.

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Examples

  • It seems that writer/artist John Byrne – a very talented guy whose work I have enjoyed – is a rather contankerous fellow who enjoys rewriting his own past and when he discovered that there was a Wikipedia article on him, he went apesh*t over some of the things reported - things like his combative relationships with some of his collaberators, reasons why cetrain projects were cancelled or why he was removed from certain books and the fact that he used to live in Canada.

    UberWikipedia « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Are you this much of a contankerous idiot as well as an asshole?

    How is bigotry defined? 2004

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