cranky
Example Sentences
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“The purists, they get cranky about this, you know, and say that it’s supposed to be gin and vermouth and that’s all a martini should be.”
From Salon
As a younger man, Munger could be cranky and acerbic; now, he was warm and reflective.
It’s tempting to dismiss the abrupt retirement of Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress as the end of an odd, cranky political career.
I don’t even need you to be there, but if you’re going to be there, if you could not be cranky, that would be great.
From Los Angeles Times
A handful of rare and cranky antiques are powering the ungainly Hollywood resurgence of VistaVision.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
