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Перевод: cantankerous

[прилагательное]
сварливый; придирчивый

Тезаурус:

1. The defendant is a cantankerous individual gripped by the dangerous delusion that his opinion matters.
2. The cantankerous tone of Hippolytus cannot be denied.
3. If one looks only at the outer signs, one may see a cantankerous, dotty old person, but in the soul something very different may be perceived.
4. Then again the most beleaguered hostess would not swap a cantankerous granny on a Poundstretcher for a panicking mare trying to lie down in her stall at 30,000 feet.
5. The provincials regarded us as a gassy, protesting, quarrelsome, cantankerous crowd, very good at cursing the enemy and cursing ourselves, but no good at effective fighting against the well organised political parties.
6. She was aware of her now, not just as a daft, cantankerous old woman but as someone like herself, fearful and isolated.
7. But if they all turn out to be as cantankerous as this one, Mr Buksh will probably be happy to steer clear of them.
8. Only Chapman lacked any easily identifiable and stereotypical presence (his cantankerous military type, who would interrupt the more outrageous sketches with a testy "this is silly!", might just as well, or even better, have been played by Cleese).
9. Mina and Alexis had a guest in a tiny cottage behind their house, a rather cantankerous English poet.
10. "Oecumenical conference, except we've no Orthodox cantankerous Greeks and no clip-arsed, fornicating, drug-chewing bastards of Mamelukes."
11. Elsewhere, particularly in sitcoms, older people are crudely portrayed as being either enfeebled, vague and forgetful or, at the other extreme, cantankerous battle axes.
12. But a paper that has lost half its readers and most of its advertisers, while retaining its cantankerous and costly unions, is unlikely to be an attractive proposition in the middle of a recession.
13. It is hard not to sympathise with his desire to knock off managing director Duncan, a hammy, cantankerous old fool in Kevin Stoney's playing.