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• s  stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
• s  having a difficult and contrary disposition
  a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

• Michael's reviews of new books were cantankerous and often differed from the views of other pre-publication reviewers.
• Judgmental, cantankerous and devoid of humor, Michael was disliked by most of his colleagues.
• David was a cantankerous liberal who regarded his passionate public pursuit of unpopular causes to be his birthright.

• bloody-minded
• crotchety
• ornery

News & Articles

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• Voice mail pits Aurora mayor against school board president
  East Aurora School Board President Annette Johnson can be cantankerous, calculating, controlling … certainly controversial. Johnson even admits some of those descriptions are accurate, but adds she’s really a nice person who’s become a lightning rod in the beleaguered district because “I care so much about the kids.” Only, those children were not mentioned even once in a voice mail she left on ...
  June 6, 2013 - The Beacon News

Quotes

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• Herb Kelleher in Los Angeles Times
  Referring to Muse as "a cantankerous genius," Southwest co-founder Herb Kelleher told the Dallas Morning News that his former colleague "was the perfect person - because he was tough, he was competitive, he was hard-minded - to get Southwest...
• George Blaney in TheDay.com
  He was his usual cantankerous self,Blaney said.
• Pat Buchanan in CNN
  He was a cantankerous character,Buchanan said. "He really didn't like conservatives, especially the new breed. It made for great chemistry and opposition."