cantankerousest

Updated: May 9, 2025

"Who is Professor Kennedy?" he inquired; and was frankly relieved when Sylvia explained: "He's the head of the Mathematics Department, about seventy years old, and the crossest, cantankerousest old misanthrope you ever saw. And thinks himself immensely clever for being so! He just loathes people the way they really are and he dotes on Mother and Judith because they're not like anybody else.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The Bent Twig