cantankerous

cantankerous has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

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