cranky
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“You can certainly see the market get cranky about that.”
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
"If you get cranky with family, just know it's because you're tired," she told them at one point.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
If it weren’t for the long-ago gift of some 3,000 gorgeous sylvan acres from a cranky jailbird with a civic conscience and a large and very taxable real estate portfolio, we wouldn’t have Griffith Park.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
And in the entry for “cranky” I find a secondary meaning I have never considered: “full of twists and turns,” as in a cranky road.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
The expression on its face was cranky, and Jeremy's head began to swirl with irritated shades of brown and green.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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