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Bad-tempered or irritable

Eccentric or strange in nature or character

Not fully in control of one's mental faculties

Awkward because of size or shape

Having a very gloomy or ill-tempered expression or demeanor

Characterized by anger or dissatisfaction

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Adjective

Bad-tempered or irritable

ill-humoured^UK

on a short fuse

having got out of bed the wrong side

as cross as two sticks

like a bear with a sore head

got up on wrong side of bed

having got out of bed on the wrong side

hot under the collar

confrontational

easily offended

unaccommodating

apt to fly off the handle

perversely irritable

uncommunicative

huffy irascible

bundle of nerves

with a long face

foaming at the mouth

not best pleased

bent out of shape

ready for a fight

prima donna-ish

easily provoked

hyper-sensitive

having short fuse

hot under collar

quick to take offense

easily affected

easily frightened

easily agitated

in high dudgeon

have chip on shoulder

quick to take offence

difficult to handle

pass-remarkable

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“Most of the time, she was cranky and grumpy, experiencing this nonstop craving and hunger for ice cream.”

Adjective

Eccentric or strange in nature or character

out of the ordinary

out in left field

out of the common

very unconventional

uncharacteristic

not tightly wrapped

off the beaten track

non compos mentis

off the beaten path

incomprehensible

unrepresentative

out of this world

individualistic

hard to swallow

weird and wonderful

phantasmagorical

beyond comprehension

beyond understanding

without parallel

few and far between

in a league of its own

thin on the ground

beyond your ken

personalized^US

unrecognized^US

like nothing on earth

breaking new ground

unrecognised^UK

personalised^UK

ground-breaking

foreign-looking

off beaten path

never to be forgotten

out of all reason

beyond all reason

inconsequential

scarcely credible

difficult to believe

beyond the bounds of possibility

head in the clouds

out of touch with reality

phantasmagorial

phantasmagorian

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“Pike soon became a martyr to Lawrence's cranky ideas about typography, a legacy of his passionate admiration for William Morris.”

Adjective

Not fully in control of one's mental faculties

non compos mentis

around the bend

off one's gourd

mad as a hatter

of unsound mind

stark raving mad

nutty as a fruitcake

sick in the head

not the full shilling

round the twist

out of one's mind

away with the fairies

mad as a March hare

as daft as a brush

foaming at the mouth

not right in the head

not right upstairs

not quite right in the head

stark staring mad

off your rocker

off your trolley

have kangaroos in the top paddock

crazy as a loon

have bats in the belfry

have a screw loose

one card shy of a full deck

a few cards shy of a full deck

a few sandwiches short of a picnic

not in your right mind

with a screw loose

psychopathological

severely mentally ill

having bats in the belfry

not of sound mind

in another world

mentally deranged

out of one's gourd

deprived of one's wits

having a screw loose

off the deep end

manic-depressive

having kangaroos in the top paddock

disorganized^US

severely mentally disordered

out of your mind

touched in the head

out of one's head

daft as a brush

one sandwich short of a picnic

out of one's tree

as mad as a March hare

as mad as a hatter

disorganised^UK

not functioning properly

out of commission

not quite right

slow on the uptake

thick as two short planks

soft in the head

discombobulated

few X short of a Y

two sandwiches short of a picnic

through the roof

not knowing what to do with oneself

out of one's wit

out of one's skull

with Alzheimer's disease

not knowing if one is coming or going

beside yourself

hot under the collar

in a cold sweat

hot and bothered

at the end of your tether

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“It seems one crazy, cranky dollmaker has found the technology to shrink people down to the size of mere dolls.”

Adjective

Awkward because of size or shape

extremely large

larger-than-life

of considerable size

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“I was sewing by myself on a cranky old machine. I decided if I was really going to sew, I did not trust my ability to baby and coddle that old machine into working correctly for me.”

Adjective

Having a very gloomy or ill-tempered expression or demeanor

ill-humoured^UK

uncommunicative

evil-intentioned

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Adjective

Characterized by anger or dissatisfaction

hot under the collar

not best pleased

in high dudgeon

ill-humoured^UK

foaming at the mouth

bent out of shape

as cross as two sticks

like a bear with a sore head

gnashing one's teeth

at daggers drawn

with a chip on your shoulder

having got out of bed on the wrong side

on a short fuse

fed up to the teeth

fed up to the back teeth

carrying a chip on your shoulder

disapproving of

cut to the quick

with chip on shoulder

blue in the face

sick as a parrot

having short fuse

hot under collar

down in the mouth

having a fit of the sulks

having got out of bed the wrong side

easily offended

have had it up to here with

have had enough

have had a basinful of

have had something up to here

insurrectionary

out of countenance

down in the dumps

as sick as a parrot

confrontational

uncommunicative

unaccommodating

ready for a fight

prima donna-ish

apt to fly off the handle

got up on wrong side of bed

perversely irritable

bundle of nerves

with a long face

like a cat on a hot tin roof

a bundle of nerves

huffy irascible

easily frightened

easily agitated

have a bone to pick

having a chip on one's shoulder

itching to fight

hyper-sensitive

easily affected

like a fish out of water

on the qui vive

difficult to handle

have chip on shoulder

pass-remarkable

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