By the 1920's he had expressed them, but he lived on until 1947, an increasingly isolated, cantankerous and unsympathetic man.

All his achievements have been reluctant, undertaken only to please the cantankerous old man seated beside him.

One cantankerous old man muttered at the rookie to get out of the way.

This cantankerous, blustery older man also ties his sister - Seibei's mother - to a post.

Next door lives Grandad, a scruffy, cantankerous old man, who accepts meals brought round to him with little thanks.

A self-described "cantankerous old man who's lived alone a lot of years."

She was used to cantankerous older men.

It's like living with a cantankerous old man!

That old man is the most cantankerous old man who ever lived.

For a moment he thought the cantankerous man would stand his ground, and he'd have to use physical force.