prankish
Example Sentences
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There are several reasons to consider Williams the real record holder in Grand Slam singles titles, and none of them have to do with Court’s crankish or controversial views.
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021
County cricket held its traditional curtain-raiser in Dubai, no doubt much to the delight of the kingdom's legions of crankish retired schoolteachers in yellowing wind-cheaters carrying transistor radios held together with sticking plaster.
From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010
Her enthusiasms were crankish, hypochondriac, self-obsessive: aromatherapy, colonic irrigation, the fool's gold of astrology.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is long since ded, as he himself would have put it, but his phonetic theory appears to have survived him in crankish brains here and there.
From An Old Town By the Sea by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
And what were the antecedents of this crankish old woman?
From The Starbucks by Read, Opie Percival
