Today’s “Word of the Day” is “cantankerous” and it is an adjective meaning “angry and always complaining; bad-tempered, ill-tempered, ill-natured, irritable, prickly, short-tempered, cranky, bilious, argumentative, quarrelsome, uncooperative, impatient”.
Example Sentence: Courts in Turkey generally bow to the wishes of the country’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This is unsurprising, given his purges of judges and prosecutors during his two decades in power. So last week’s court verdict sentencing Istanbul’s popular opposition mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu,…followed a familiar pattern. That this decision was politically motivated goes without saying… In short, a working-class populist who began life as a reformer fighting for social justice has developed into a cantankerous, dictatorial bully.
This word is present in The Guardian article The Observer view on why Recep Tayyip Erdoğan does not deserve another term in office and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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