The bear was always a little cantankerous in the mornings.    From LearnThat.org. 

A cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Republicans politely call him "cantankerous" - at least that's what they say in public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Workers Comp Insider] Reference

He was called cantankerous, which he probably took as a badge of honour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Mink has been called cantankerous, difficult, morally superior, selfish and egotistical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yes We Can: Mink Shows How] Reference

Hez he ben gittin 'cantankerous down Dawson way?.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Man on the Trail] Reference

An old scanner the engineering teams used before was "cantankerous," says Andresen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

Look in the dictionary under "cantankerous", and you'll likely see a picture of Walt Kowalski.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

Jurors heard how the "cantankerous" pensioner meticulously recorded in his diary all the money he spent.    From Wordnik.com.  [HomePage - The Sun] Reference

Gamers will take on the role of a karate-hungry student as they learn from a "cantankerous" old karate sensei.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinema Blend Feeds] Reference

Because D.L. Hughley hosts a show on CNN, and he doesn't know what the words "cantankerous" and "rancorous" mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Undercover Black Man] Reference

He was a double-engined, high-speed pacificist, because he was the kind of cantankerous fellow who must always be in a minority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Standfast] Reference

'cantankerous' a lot, often when referring to a troublesome boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamaica Gleaner Online] Reference

"cantankerous," as Sukey expressed it, and that something very like quarrelling had gone on in the star chamber.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference

Head Rambles Ireland's most cantankerous auld fella.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference

She was a semi-invalid; difficult and cantankerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference

"Come cut your stick, you cantankerous jackanapes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference

Ireland most cantankerous auld fella Imprints of Light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference

They are all carnivorous, cartilaginous, and cantankerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870] Reference

Kuwait's cantankerous Parliament was reinstated after the gulf war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Step Forward. Now Inch Back.] Reference

Say what you want about the big three, none are particularly cantankerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Alter: Why The Heat Won't Win] Reference

In addition, his cantankerous personality and lack of refinement grated on many Poles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero's Last Hurrah] Reference

In Ireland she is generally thought of fondly; as a beloved, if cantankerous, daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rory Fitzgerald: Sinéad O'Connor: An Unlikely Prophet for a Scandalized Church] Reference

(Altman had the projectionist stop the film.) "He's too cantankerous," explains one producer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood Is Talking] Reference

She stands up to a cantankerous neighbor (a divine Phyllis Somerville) with newfound courage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are We Ready for This Yet?] Reference

Lancett's ould la'ndress, sor; a cantankerous ould woman, too, an 'wid the divvle of a temper!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference

He recalls growing up "" when off-Broadway was cantankerous and even Broadway involved your brain. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Are Incorrect, Sir] Reference

Wurman ran the show with operatic flair; he was sometimes cantankerous but always quick with a bear hug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. TEDlove] Reference

At the time, it seemed a bit cantankerous, the behavior of a woman refusing to acknowledge the onset of her winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Becomes a Legend Most?] Reference

So why is it that a cantankerous governor from an inland province like Minas Gerais can upend his program so easily?.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Who Runs Brazil?] Reference

Last week the White House was scrambling to assure its cantankerous conservative base that Miers would not disappoint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mild About Harriet] Reference

It was a palpable thing, that weight, and he had fought against it in the most cantankerous and contrarian way he could.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arlene] Reference

On the other is the cantankerous, blue-collar Serra who transforms a seeming excess of steel into a dizzying ode to optimism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sculpture For The Soul] Reference

The answer, in a nutshell, is hu-man nature -- glorious, perverse, excitable, cantankerous but above all moody and changeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skunk at the Picnic?] Reference

Several tributes on Dec. 12 marked another year for Frank Sinatra, amid concerns over the cantankerous crooner's failing health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is This Frank's Final Bow?] Reference

While the pioneers were at work prospecting for gold, and improving the country in all manner of ways, Lobengula became cantankerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

He has a high spirit, and it is no doubt cantankerous, but he must be honourably treated, and there's never a finer temper to be seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference

A cantankerous waspish counsel, with the voice of an exasperated cockatoo, endeavours to make the opposing engineer contradict himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

"I should have thought that rooms in this house, even with the society of a cantankerous old woman, would have been tolerated for a time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference