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Sentence Examples The Argentinians had no previous experience with antiship missiles, and the Exocet was a complicated and cranky weapon. Luckily pseudonymous kid is a great city kid, though we had a couple of bad mornings where late breakfasts made everyone cranky and impatient. He returns home from the tour, his mother cranky at his domestic uselessness. Frankly I think the Empress was just being cranky but it irritated me all the same and the incident was still a burr under my saddle today. 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. 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. I'm not sure why I've been so cranky lately, need to take some chill pills. She had a feeling that any creature who lived in perpetual darkness would probably be cranky. The former Harvard librarian and cranky widower of Glass's richly layered novel is settling comfortably into retirement. That said, like all weirdo songwriters destined to evolve into cranky, bearded hermits, he has inspired his own legion of obsessive completists. When you feel bloated, cranky, pimply and crampy on a monthly basis, it's tough to be all that grateful. At times Bifo seems a cranky old curmudgeon madly shaking his fist at the present. Better wine is actually coming out of California, from a coolish climate that should still make the cranky Pinot Noir faint. Even if you're one of the cranky coots who loathe every nanosecond of the prequel trilogy, Clone Wars still qualifies as top-notch. But if the only way to do it is via a cranky and crabbed dismissal of science, count me out. Quigley returned to the treetop retreat hours later, looking tired and cranky. We're not this weird, cranky, fanged minority that is secretly drinking blood in the name of its depraved godlessness! It seems one crazy, cranky dollmaker has found the technology to shrink people down to the size of mere dolls. In life he was regarded as an awkward customer, a cranky, eccentric figure with a talent for rubbing people up the wrong way. Once considered cranky, biodynamic methods are gaining respect worldwide, not least because of their excellent results. Show More Sentences Its images and quirky, cranky design return to the mind's eye long after the final credits. It gives me the right to explain that my periodic short tempered, cranky moments are a biproduct of the disease. She was cranky because it had taken over an hour to get the twins to go to sleep. Just remind them the family will be less cranky and short tempered if they can overcome jet lag first. Do you find yourself irritable and cranky, taking out your anxiety and frustration on those you love? 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. Eventually the train did come although it was three hours late and filled with cranky people who just wanted to go home. Then again, I think they expect me to be a bit cranky at that hour anyway, so it works out. Most of the time, she was cranky and grumpy, experiencing this nonstop craving and hunger for ice cream. 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. 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. The old, cranky generator breaks down with an annoying frequency, severing us from the computer and studio lights. The engine, cranky, rusty, out-of-practice, whirred to life. The entire vehicle began to shake, violently at first, then settling. After going backwards at the election and losing ground in opinion polls since, Opposition MPs are cranky, fractious and looking for answers. Here's wishing the happiest of holidays to you and your loved ones, from myself and my cranky fuzzball of a dog. Take a gift-wrapped present through security, and you may end up watching some cranky guard tear it apart instead of Grandpa. Next time I get too cranky and glum, will someone please remind me of these words I wrote today? The song, with its lurching vocals, cranky guitars and pulsating rhythm, got me pretty intrigued. Feeling cranky all over again, Matthew stood up abruptly and groped his way to the kitchen. She was cranky and grouchy most of the time and her feet hurt but she had work to do. Show More Sentences 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. When the mood stone registers blue-green, for instance, your dog is relaxed and cuddly, but black means he's cranky. He has a cranky Luddite streak, and he may be amplifying it for comic effect. One looked about four and was lying limply in his mothers' arms, all feverish and cranky. Joan sighed, not really sure why she was so cranky today, and heaved their loaded shopping cart toward the refrigerated dairy section. 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. A cranky old man who scolds children for making noise violates with his loud voice the very quietness he upholds. Usually when I'm sick or getting sick, I start to feel droopy and miserable and cranky and unable to function, and I just want to take to my bed. 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. Selina was tired, she was cranky and she was becoming tired of her coach's belittlement. Liitoja was definitely on the cranky side a few years ago when he came up with the title's fatalistic mouthful of words. Make sure they are ready to play and not wet, hungry, sleepy, cranky or distracted. En route to the recital she was cranky, giving me the cold slitty eye-beam treatment in the rear view mirror. Back in early March, I'd come home from work and fallen asleep, exhausted, at 7pm only to wake at 7am unrested and cranky. 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. 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. Others may experience brief periods of irritability, and some may seem cranky for weeks, experiencing crying episodes and disrupted sleeping and eating patterns. So I'm down one hour's worth of shut-eye and I'm mighty cranky. Yet he was also an awkward companion, with a cranky side to his character. He would have had to spend many hours with expensive and cranky machinery in order to make phonetic measurements to correlate with listener judgments. Show More Sentences 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. 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 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. 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. These jokers are trying to make everyone cranky and blaming it all on us. After a day-long drive with three young children, we emerged from our minivan cramped, cranky, and dusty with junk food. In a din of cranky, snarky, jaded, and occasionally even lazy late-night talk show hosts, he radiates pure joy. Jonathan Freedland reviews a new biography of the cranky German socialist in the New York Times. It's simply not possible to be cranky when you are talking about making or drinking a daiquiri. The administrators are cranky and making the strangest decisions. 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. 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. He was the cranky and quirky old neighbor that everyone had. 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. 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. 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. We didn't want our town to get a reputation for being cranky. The aughts went out like a cranky kid last night, kicking and screaming until the bitter end. 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. 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. Show More Sentences Now is the time of the season that people start to get cranky. We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts. One was small, one was cranky, and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky. The other three were good. Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he'll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be. There's a cranky curmudgeon working at the hospital who gives all the patients and other doctors flak. The medical examiner was behind on autopsies and cranky, so we didn't even know if the old guy in the pool was a homicide. Cranky employees harassed by justifiably cranky customers... Oscar the Grouch would be thrilled. Investors, not so much. The director rehearsed the cast incessantly in the days leading up to opening night, and as a result they were tired and cranky when it arrived. His prose style, famously cranky and occasionally savage, helped cement an air of irascibility. Klinsmann had to know from observing the cranky screwface Dempsey displayed in public that this was no moonbeam of a player. They seem, in fact, like cranky, petulant children, coked to the gills. Not when he was fixing cranky old carriage clocks or reviving a classic timepiece on Front Street. If Facebook chooses to remain a holdout, it will not be as the head of a countercoalition but as a cranky recluse. Unwhole for 11 games, miles away from championship form, cranky over a single blemish on the record, the Lakers soon will call up reinforcements they arguably don't need. I felt so blessed, so accepted in my naked, flawed self, as if she looked at that cranky, poopy baby in her arms and loved her all over again, held her close, skin to skin. Examples from Classical Literature And if you think Ferdinand's the man to give in to a cranky Khedive, you're much mistaken. She wondered if every daring, sexy technology project started like this, a cranky hacker muttering angrily about boot-loaders. He had been given only a mild shock, but it had been enough for his fluttery, cranky heart. You'd be cranky and grumbly and disagreeable too, I dare say. But looky here, Billy, how does it come you're in this cranky boat? Throughout, Kirstein remains patrician, cranky, and intoxicatingly judgmental. He always was stubborn as an off ox and cranky as a windlass. After arriving here she has seemed low spirited, cranky and faultfinding. He's as straight and square and honest as he is obstinate and cranky. Here's a rahm,' he said, at last, flinging back a cranky board on hinges. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of cranky? Words that rhyme with cranky What is the adverb for cranky? What is the adjective for cranky? What is the noun for cranky? Translations for cranky Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words crankshaft cranks cranking crankiness crankily Cranked Cranmer crannied crannies crannog cranny crap 6-letter Words Starting With c cr cra cran crank