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Adjective: cantankerous  kan'tangkurus
  1. Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
    - bloody-minded [Brit]
     
  2. Having a difficult and contrary disposition
    "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"
    - crotchety, ornery [N. Amer]

See also: cantankerously, ill-natured, obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate