The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cantankerous \Can*tan"ker*ous\, a. Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [Colloq.] -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ly, adv. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ness, n.
The cantankerous old maiden aunt.
--Thackeray.
Wiktionary
adv. In a cantankerous manner.
WordNet
adv. in a bad mood; "he answered her cantankerously"
Usage examples of "cantankerously".
Trooper snapped cantankerously, taking the spoons and stowing them away.
The other "hands" can refine these readings-Neptune's period is so cantankerously different from that of Pluto that the two fall into approximately repeated configuration only once in seven hundred and fifty-eight years.
The other “hands” can refine these readings-Neptune’s period is so cantankerously different from that of Pluto that the two fall into approximately repeated configuration only once in seven hundred and fifty-eight years.