| It's as silly to deplore nasty criticism as it is to deplore snark or wit or sarcasm or just plain crankiness. |
| If you cut back, your body shows signs of caffeine withdrawal, like headaches, crankiness and sleepiness. |
| As a person ages, the signs of depression are much more likely to be dismissed as crankiness or grumpiness. |
| The fact that she knows hormones are causing her temporary crankiness doesn't make the feelings any less real, so cut her some slack. |
| She had her moments of surpassing crankiness today, but that's normal. |
| And yet she couldn't remember one time when he had aimed that crankiness or meanness at her. |
