cantankerous

Modifies a noun

• man: Complicating matters is the cantankerous mountain man Thunder Jack, who would love to have Demon leading his team.
• father: Harold wants to move up in the world and leave home, but his plans constantly thwarted by his cunning old and cantankerous father.
• personality: God should be ignored as a cantankerous supernatural personality stirring up the affairs of humanity with His index finger.
• woman: The doctor told the young man to go out and find the ugliest, most cantankerous woman he could find and marry her.
• nature: Then, he had been in awe of the wizard's probable cantankerous nature and fearsome powers.
• group: However being an inherently individualist, cantankerous group as a whole why should we expect them to agree on anything?

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: Despite what you say, your problems are much more likely to stem from a particularly cantankerous tape recorder than inferior cassettes.
• often: When a wrinkled skyscraper is flabby, voip phone blithe computer support competes with the often cantankerous abstraction.