crankiness

Example Sentences

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He commonly throws his face out of joint trying to get their wacky crankinesses into line.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are only a few years of this world and its companionships, and, though your friends may have their twists and crankinesses, they are still your friends, all you are likely to have.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

I was even sorry about it, a little; I had spent so much sweat and brain learning about their crankinesses.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford

They are perverse creatures, however, and it is possible that this deprivation is responsible for many of their ill-humours and crankinesses.

From Here are Ladies by Stephens, James