But Gen and Ryuta are being paid 10 yen a day to look after the cantankerous fool.
Despite what you say, your problems are much more likely to stem from a particularly cantankerous tape recorder than inferior cassettes.
Feeding and harnessing the cantankerous mules wasn't exactly the highlight of her day.
I worked for some British newspapers, but I always seemed to get the boring assignments - "Old man grows enormous turnip - exclusive!" or "Cantankerous old lady sees Messiah on piece of toast."
Jessie's husband passed away and she moved in with her cantankerous father-in-law Gus (Wilford Brimley).
Mad-Eye Moody - The cantankerous auror died during the escape engineered when Harry had to be moved from his aunt and uncle's to the safety of the Weasley's hollow.
They can be downright cantankerous.
When a wrinkled skyscraper is flabby, voip phone blithe computer support competes with the often cantankerous abstraction.