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
-- Do they seem overtired, cranky, irritable, aggressive, overemotional or hyperactive, or have trouble thinking during the day? Kids tucked in with a dose of melatonin
Consider This: The name Bert will always call to mind the cranky Sesame Street character. 5-Star Baby Name Advisor
Or is it because you are getting old and cranky that you are acting like this? The Sun
In June, the blustery, flustery Lewis Black published his non-apologia, Me of Little Faith; a couple of weeks later, the death of George Carlin reminded everybody what a cranky old infidel he was. An Atheist Walks Into a Bar …
Anyone who is underfed and trying to use willpower to not eat is going to be cranky. A wedding diet is not a piece of cake
I thought you were grouchy and cranky, but I had no idea what two teeth could do to a human being, and the world will never be the same.
I am pretty sure I have redefined the word cranky in their minds. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - It’s not looking good…
And, even though it's been a good day, I'm cranky.
Why is it that so many people today are never disturbed or upset at worship (except, of course, when the acolyte does acrobatics, the liturgy runs long, or the kids are cranky and crying)?
I came down with a cold the day Max and I flew out of Seattle, and I was very cranky to think that I was going to be sick and feeling lousy all weekend.
Selina was tired, she was cranky and she was becoming tired of her coach's belittlement.
The relentless sweltering had gotten to all of us, kids and adults alike; we were short tempered and cranky and prone to starting fights over nothing.
These jokers are trying to make everyone cranky and blaming it all on us.
So, any ephemera from the creation of that story about cranky old Hagar comprise the literary world's version of splinters from the cross. CanLit
And, because I am sick and snotty and cranky and – consequently – in the mood for a little self-flagellatory humiliation. Her Bad Hair | Her Bad Mother
We were high-tech seasick in a bad way, cranky and touchy, and nobody could tell us what we would find in the bowels of the floating city. VITALS
She has a voluble and attractive personality, but even if she were cranky and bad-tempered I'd still go there because the food's really good.
She is also starting to teethe and is getting cranky cuz of it. Lauragusto Diary Entry
Even if you're one of the cranky coots who loathe every nanosecond of the prequel trilogy, Clone Wars still qualifies as top-notch.
If you go too slowly, the person thinks you don't want to hug them, and you have a touchy, cranky person on your hands for the rest of the evening.
Of course I've heard the word biddy before, but when I hear it I think of old ladies who are a little bit cranky. Archive 2009-04-01
Do you find yourself irritable and cranky, taking out your anxiety and frustration on those you love?
I cried with laughter the first time I read this, and I still go there when I feel cranky, because it always makes me giggle.
He was as cranky as a bad-tempered goat, always putting his head down and charging into things that annoyed him.
We didn't want our town to get a reputation for being cranky.
It seems one crazy, cranky dollmaker has found the technology to shrink people down to the size of mere dolls.
She was cranky because it had taken over an hour to get the twins to go to sleep.
Now is the time of the season that people start to get cranky (even the chess players are looking a little irritable).
Never let a real combat vet hear you spue youe garbage in person they tend to get cranky over that Heroes or Villains?
Somehow you know where her relationships are going with the uptight mayor, the free-spirited riverboat dweller, and her cranky neighbour.
The IRS is also cranky about undeclared income.
I've also been labelled the ‘eccentric crank of Eldwick’ by a party with an equally cranky name.
Joan sighed, not really sure why she was so cranky today, and heaved their loaded shopping cart toward the refrigerated dairy section.
In addition to the vernaculars of her own blood kin, Oreo can also claim fluency in the salty street talk of hustlers, pimps, and prostitutes, as well as the obscure erudition of cranky scholars.
I'm going to try real, real hard to not be especially cynical - nothing's worse than a fusty, cranky sourpuss who was there when it really mattered.
She was cranky and grouchy most of the time and her feet hurt but she had work to do.
This allowed Alex and I to still make it to Sunday brunch at 1 PM with hours to spare, because everyone knows what a cranky-pants I am until I have my third mimosa.
Luna Lovegood, also, is too ready to believe in cranky theories. Harry Potter science
Their best work is original: That talking mouse with the big ears, that cranky duck with the three nephews.
If it is ignored for long enough it will get cranky. Times, Sunday Times
It appears the reason for the red diaper is eating the red hot version of Cheetos which makes the baby cranky. Think Progress » Ridge Defends Napolitano From Right-Wing Attacks: The Criticisms Are ‘Misplaced’
She can now choose among services such as speed post, telefax and Internet kiosks at the post office, where cranky clerks formerly sold mainly just stamps and letters.
She arrived in Hawaii, tired and cranky, 5 hours later.
That said, like all weirdo songwriters destined to evolve into cranky, bearded hermits, he has inspired his own legion of obsessive completists.
The song, with its lurching vocals, cranky guitars and pulsating rhythm, got me pretty intrigued.
Make sure they are ready to play and not wet, hungry, sleepy, cranky or distracted.
So I'm a bit (read: a whole boatload of a lot) cranky and tired and with the bouts of insomnia I've had in the last ten days, my mood is a little off. Moments in Darkness Poll
I can get pretty cranky about certain scheduling matters. Times, Sunday Times
Cranky and carnaptious, he vented his spleen in satires and clumsy lampoons.
Hoodathunk (sponsored by the FSM, Noodles for Freedom!) says: backup, are you just a teeny bit cranky because that fence you constantly straddle is chafing? Think Progress » Perriello Blasts GOP Leaders In Washington For Refusing To Completely Denounce Harassment Of Democrats
She's a member of a group that promotes cranky ideas about food and exercise.
Somewhere, high in the trees, two cranky crows cawed and below them Salmon Creek glistened in the late afternoon sun. POSEY'S POND
She had a feeling that any creature who lived in perpetual darkness would probably be cranky.
I'm mopey and cranky and uninspired these days.
Others may experience brief periods of irritability, and some may seem cranky for weeks, experiencing crying episodes and disrupted sleeping and eating patterns.
If you camp out somewhere, knowing full well that it's against the law, you can't really get too cranky about it when someone comes to roust you.
Next time I get too cranky and glum, will someone please remind me of these words I wrote today?
As those synths slide out of range, a cranky whiplash beat briefly takes center stage before relenting to blue-lit micro-beats and gurgling plinks.
The potential for chaos and lawsuits and cranky alumni is there but these aren't idiots you have hired and people aren't as stupid online as you fear.
I've also been labelled the ‘eccentric crank of Eldwick’ by a party with an equally cranky name.
I imagined what we must look like to the Hezbollah men crouched resentfully in their tents: two unveiled women, one of them eating pink cotton candy and wearing a cherry-red jacket; one cranky old hajji, barely able to walk, supported by her son, who seemed to have brought her to the tent city expressly so she could parade through and tell them they were bums. Day of Honey
Way back when I taught medical students and residents, I would not allow them to call a child a "diabetic" or a "sickler" or an "asthmatic", something I learned from a cranky attending when I was a student. My UbD essential question of the day
He returns home from the tour, his mother cranky at his domestic uselessness.
The administrators are cranky and making the strangest decisions.
He's been cranky every time he was overlooked for the front bench and is also known to have mood swings, despite once being a psychologist.
Last year I was riding a MUNI bus when a cranky old white man turned to two middle-aged Asian women engaged in a heated discussion and screamed This is America, goddamit. George Heymont: Strangers in Strange Lands
But I guess it's been a while since my last visit to the eateries, because when did Tea & Sympathy et al becoming the cranky bossyboots of Greenwich Avenue? Tea & Zero Sympathy
In life he was regarded as an awkward customer, a cranky, eccentric figure with a talent for rubbing people up the wrong way.
I was feeling tired and cranky.
Eventually the train did come although it was three hours late and filled with cranky people who just wanted to go home.
Or is it because you are getting old and cranky that you are acting like this? The Sun
The old, cranky generator breaks down with an annoying frequency, severing us from the computer and studio lights.
He remains, in his own words, a green fool: a cranky bogman with literary notions beyond his station.
Am I facing a future of bad, cranky writing and fat miserableness? Gossip Girl And The Tummy Of Doom | Her Bad Mother
Extends hands, legs and body to you for "pick me up"; looks down to floor, squirms and fusses, meaning "put me down"; expressionless stare means "I'm bored"; cranky and nothing soothes means "I'm tired. My daily life experience...
Liitoja was definitely on the cranky side a few years ago when he came up with the title's fatalistic mouthful of words.
Feeling cranky all over again, Matthew stood up abruptly and groped his way to the kitchen.
Its images and quirky, cranky design return to the mind's eye long after the final credits.
As if such intrusions can be dismissed as the doings of a cranky, ill-mannered boys, who don't really mean any permanent harm to the women they target.
We had a fairly peaceful time, but Clarisa and Janir argued a lot, and she was a cranky visitor.
And, because I am sick and snotty and cranky and - consequently - in the mood for a little self-flagellatory humiliation. Archive 2007-02-25
Being dragged out of their hotels in the middle of the night to see gorgeous unclad Thai women in the throws of a budding stage career makes them cranky.
Here's wishing the happiest of holidays to you and your loved ones, from myself and my cranky fuzzball of a dog.
With them are Hesperus (the semi-amnesiac golden robot who is a member of The Machine People race) and Dr. Meninx (a cranky aquatic being who uses a paper-thin avatar to communicate with non-aquatics) as well as several other Gentian shatterlings. REVIEW: House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Most of the time, she was cranky and grumpy, experiencing this nonstop craving and hunger for ice cream.
If it is ignored for long enough it will get cranky. Times, Sunday Times
Along with his usual bullheadedness, he was cranky from lack of sleep. The God Hater
Since being cranky is pretty much the opposite of having a good time, my Powerbook has been hiding out in my backpack for the last few days, while I've been out enjoying that real life I have read so much about on its screen. In Exile
The engine, cranky, rusty, out-of-practice, whirred to life. The entire vehicle began to shake, violently at first, then settling.
Half the reason we are so goddamn cranky is that we are constantly seeing profoundly talented people passed up for books that are "more commercial" (read: "OMG the hot new dude at school IS ACTUALLY A SUPERNATURAL ENTITY WHO WANTS TO DO IT WITH ME!!!!"); it makes us sad, but the industry right now is not a pretty picture, dear ones. Archive 2010-04-01
He has a cranky Luddite streak, and he may be amplifying it for comic effect.
If men menstruated instead of floral dresses, volleyball and ponies there would just be some cranky old bloke, dressed in nothing but a blue singlet, stubbie shorts and thongs, and as a bead of hard earned sweat dribbled down his forehead he would stare down the barrel of the camera, spit and say: "G'day ya period, you can get it milkin 'a cow, matter of fact I got it now! Sierrazen Diary Entry
She has a voluble and attractive personality, but even if she were cranky and bad-tempered I'd still go there because the food's really good.
The teaching methods and learning techniques are rusty, cranky and antiquated.
Obviously my attitude hasn't been the best because the musicians keep telling me that I'm cross and cranky and difficult to work with.
So I'm down one hour's worth of shut-eye and I'm mighty cranky.
If your child seems cranky, irritable, bossy, or just plain unhappy after eating any of the myriad foods that contain colorings, preservatives like sodium benzoate, or other additives, consider changing your shopping habits. Duh pookie
Biodynamic theory and practice may sound cranky, but you can't ignore the growing numbers of bluechip wine estates joining the ranks, especially in France.
I was getting even more tired than I already was, I was cranky, I had a splitting headache and I thought my poor little feet would collapse beneath me any second.
Still, better than Patrick Leigh Fermor, endless garbage about local customs, ravishing scenery, enchanting cranky locals.
Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image.
They had been notified that "that gonoph of a Whiffler was kicked out, and a new feller was in, who looked cranky enough, and wanted to see 'em and tell 'em whether he was a damn 'fool or not. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
They can get a bit cranky. Times, Sunday Times
Back in early March, I'd come home from work and fallen asleep, exhausted, at 7pm only to wake at 7am unrested and cranky.
Once considered cranky, biodynamic methods are gaining respect worldwide, not least because of their excellent results.
He would have had to spend many hours with expensive and cranky machinery in order to make phonetic measurements to correlate with listener judgments.
I was feeling tired and cranky.
This lack of rest has caused a radical shift in my personality, making me cranky, irritable, and prone to curse loudly at the slightest provocation.
Actually, that waitress is just permanently cranky. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but keep your lousy tippers to yourself
Lieberman is just a cranky old scold who seems more interested in blowing up the middle east than rebuilding America. Senator to actor: 'Make my day'
After going backwards at the election and losing ground in opinion polls since, Opposition MPs are cranky, fractious and looking for answers.
As for Up, Pixar's 10th outing, which opens May 29, about a cranky codger and an overeager Asian kid who fly off to South America in a house hoisted by helium balloons, it will likely be the first film that all three — father, mother and child, who turns 2 today — enjoy together. Pixar moves on 'Up' with its 10th movie
He is cranky and on several occasions has tried to swipe at or bite the tourists.
Better wine is actually coming out of California, from a coolish climate that should still make the cranky Pinot Noir faint.
The fact he could be won round to this cranky idea demonstrates that he shouldn't be trusted in charge of a whelk stall, let alone the national economy.
I can get pretty cranky about certain scheduling matters. Times, Sunday Times
Im right on the everge of cranky and I shouldnt be cranky. winter is moving toward the big feeze (lock up) in the midwest and I dont wanna ice fish. unless they pass a law allowing minor explosive devices. A Brief History of Wildcatting
It's such a large house and the butlers are all cranky old men who are hardly the right kind of companionship for a young woman.
Then again, I think they expect me to be a bit cranky at that hour anyway, so it works out.
They can get a bit cranky. Times, Sunday Times
She has a voluble and attractive personality, but even if she were cranky and bad-tempered I'd still go there because the food's really good.
I was usually a late riser - and a cranky girl in the morning to boot.
Yes, M-mv's resident and original reader, thinker, and autodidact is a bit cranky today, but she'll beat this funk before too long. 04.04
Don't these people know that such diets can make you cranky, halitotic, flatulent and five times more likely to be audited by the IRS?
A cranky old man who scolds children for making noise violates with his loud voice the very quietness he upholds.
When the mood stone registers blue-green, for instance, your dog is relaxed and cuddly, but black means he's cranky.
Meanwhile, the cranky, kludgey world of open 802.11 base-stations gains ground every day. Boing Boing: June 23, 2002 - June 29, 2002 Archives
He was the cranky and quirky old neighbor that everyone had.
That bronze corset can make even the most peace-loving warrior a little cranky.
Yet he was also an awkward companion, with a cranky side to his character.
We're not this weird, cranky, fanged minority that is secretly drinking blood in the name of its depraved godlessness!
When I returned to the car and unloaded my bags, I found a single car key on a ring lying by the back right tire. I was tired, R. had been cranky, and the wind was blowing a gale.
Organic farming is no longer thought of as cranky.
A cranky, old, blind man, who lives next door is always barking, ‘Turn down that music, you lousy punks!’
My two favourite morning baristas were both cranky.
Anyway, an interesting, if not particularly gripping, chapter in which we see Gepetto aka the overthrown Adversary, getting escorted around Fabletown and being cranky and hateful, understandibly so, to all concerned. The Johnny Bacardi Show
It seems that this cranky wretch of a mare had been sideling and fidgeting when Mr. Falkland and his daughter started for their ride; but had gone pretty fairly — Miss Falkland, like my sister Aileen, could ride anything in reason — when suddenly Robbery Under Arms
The kids were getting tired and a little cranky.
The stove, which seems to be getting cranky and erratic, refused to cooperate with my desire for roasted potatoes, cooking them well enough but refusing to put a good crinkly crispy coat on them.
Still, better than Patrick Leigh Fermor, endless garbage about local customs, ravishing scenery, enchanting cranky locals.
On arrival the boy was cranky and refused to walk through the airport.
Cranky cunjevois are just part of an incredible array of uniquely Australian marine life that might benefit from the new housing.
We ourselves have no memory of being in the womb (though there are some rather cranky rumours to the opposite effect), and thus we cannot really imagine a foetus being capable of happiness or pain.
Most of her life, she lived in cranky desperation. I hope you dance
The expanse of the day unfolds before me and I can't comprehend how I am going to distract my cranky baby for the next 12 hours.
Luckily pseudonymous kid is a great city kid, though we had a couple of bad mornings where late breakfasts made everyone cranky and impatient.
Complementary therapies are not cranky, are not pseudo - medicine, and are well-accepted and thriving, even in small towns such as Forres.
Quigley returned to the treetop retreat hours later, looking tired and cranky.
Only Gitalis remained, faithful, cranky, dissatisfied genius that he was. PAINT THE WIND
So cranky and ratty was I, the friend even vowed she would never go shopping with me again - yeah, yeah!
She also got cranky several times: when her powerpoint remotes didn't work for a few seconds, when a bartender was apparently too noisily shaking a drink at one of the bars, and, most rudely, when she was "heckled" by those who had had enough of her new album. Dr. Jim Taylor: Natalie Merchant a Disappointment in Concert
The girls are failing to make the transition and keep waking up in a cranky state at some ungodly hour that starts with a 5.
Not feeling at all game to ask the cranky waitress, we just ordered anything that ended in 'wurst' and see how we went. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image.
Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image.
Just remind them the family will be less cranky and short tempered if they can overcome jet lag first.
We had a fairly peaceful time, but Clarisa and Janir argued a lot, and she was a cranky visitor.
I'm also depressed, cranky, annoying, and irritable.
These individuals are emotionally robust despite their shy demeanour, and they have high standards for themselves, which is why they can seem cranky and irritable.

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