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UK
/kɹˈæŋki/
]
[ US /ˈkɹæŋki/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹæŋki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
easily irritated or annoyed
not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
an incorrigibly fractious young man - (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
How To Use cranky In A Sentence
- In life he was regarded as an awkward customer, a cranky, eccentric figure with a talent for rubbing people up the wrong way.
- There's nothing that says exhausted, cranky and nauseous like vixen, is there? When Bad Things Happen to Bad Writers
- When I got back from Florida last night and I was cranky and tired and hungry for something sweet, I defrosted the shortbread dough that I froze a few weeks back.
- En route to the recital she was cranky, giving me the cold slitty eye-beam treatment in the rear view mirror.
- When you feel bloated, cranky, pimply and crampy on a monthly basis, it's tough to be all that grateful.
- His avatar is of the old, cranky black guy who continually gripes about his fellow "darkies" and "negras" acting all like animals and stuff. Obama On The Britney Ad: They're Painting Me As "Risky"
- I was a little "disorientated" after the day of travelling (cranky after the day of travelling) so Bryan took over the role of guide. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- But if the only way to do it is via a cranky and crabbed dismissal of science, count me out.
- It gives me the right to explain that my periodic short tempered, cranky moments are a biproduct of the disease.
- Only Gitalis remained, faithful, cranky, dissatisfied genius that he was. PAINT THE WIND