a. | 1. | Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. |
Adj. | 1. | cantankerous - stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator Synonyms: bloody-minded |
2. | cantankerous - having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers |