Difference between Cantankerous and Crotchety

CANTANKEROUS vs CROTCHETY: ADJECTIVE

Given to or marked by an ill-tempered nature, ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby.
Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious.
Difficult to handle.
Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable.
Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
Having a difficult and contrary disposition

Given to or marked by ill-tempered contradiction or opposition; contradictory; mulish; contentious; cross; waspish; ill-natured: as, “a cantankerous humour,”

Characterized by odd fancies or crotchets; fantastic or eccentric in thought; whimsical.

Feisty, Acerbic, Crabby, Gruff, Grouchy, Grumpy, Curmudgeonly, Cranky, Irascible, Testy, Ill natured, Bloody minded, Stubborn, Ornery, Crotchety

Whiny, Gruff, Peevish, Dyspeptic, Senile, Crusty, Crabby, Irascible, Grouchy, Curmudgeonly, Cranky, Grumpy, Ill natured, Ornery, Cantankerous

Feisty, Acerbic, Crabby, Gruff, Grouchy, Grumpy, Curmudgeonly, Cranky, Irascible, Testy, Ill natured, Bloody minded, Stubborn, Ornery, Crotchety

Whiny, Gruff, Peevish, Dyspeptic, Senile, Crusty, Crabby, Irascible, Grouchy, Curmudgeonly, Cranky, Grumpy, Ill natured, Ornery, Cantankerous

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Ok, so we all know investment markets can be cantankerous and irrational.".
Cantankerous incumbency gimmicks like pills, jelqing exercises, penis pumps etc.
Middle Ages, with a cantankerous and not always sympathetic character.
He proved too cantankerous and was removed from the position.
His cantankerous streak stayed with him through life after baseball.
Wondrous Momma Nature can be such a cantankerous bitch.
Matlock, a renowned, folksy and popular though cantankerous attorney.
The cantankerous old man Jerry is assigned to.
Research has shown that cantankerous patients live longer, so I resolved to be a cantankerous patient.

Indeed, the only people who want Hillary are her tired old crotchety sycophants and uninformed people.
But this is the most crotchety old person reaction to this and its so fucking irritating.
More prophets came, all sounding, as Lehi did, like crotchety old men shouting eternal damnation into the empty air.
A central character is Mary (Kelly Macdonald), the new Scottish maid to the crotchety Countess.
Am I just Queen Crotchety, or do I have valid gripes?
Ionian attitude to alteration may seem a trifle crotchety or at least ungenerous.
He was a crotchety old fellow in the primary stage of drink.
Often described as a more crotchety version of Jolly Old St.
An appropriately crotchety Santa makes this a future Christmas classic.
Pottersville, more or less ruled by the crotchety old rogue.