cranky
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It’s possible Trump was just tired and cranky.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
“You can certainly see the market get cranky about that.”
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 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
"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
The ground was blanketed with fresh white snow as the Witchlings and one black wagon containing one cranky toad, pulled by Thorn, wound through town toward the Bruised Apple Bookshop.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
“Tune into the show for the next couple hours to watch me get progressively crankier and crankier,” he said, before bemoaning missing an assignment that would have kept him inside a car.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
The return of live performances in 2021 after 18 months of shuttered halls and scattered orchestras was enough to disabuse any critic of their crankier faculties.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
"You get older, you get crankier, and comfort becomes more important. I think it's as simple as that," Pitt told Esquire in an interview published Thursday.
From Fox News ● Sep. 3, 2021
I never felt older nor crankier than when watching these “digital natives” stumble through the daily rituals of adulthood.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2018
Fat Pete returned in July, wearing a new scar and crankier than ever.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
There’s Ba humbugi, a Fiji snail referencing one of literature’s crankiest men.
From Science Magazine ● May 10, 2022
He’s hosting a dinner for the rest of the Freys, an uncharacteristically spontaneous celebration from one of Game of Thrones’ crankiest old bastards.
From The Verge ● Jul. 17, 2017
Part of this animosity stems from McCain’s status as the crankiest of the Senate’s many cranky old men.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2015
Even Dan Hampton, the crankiest and most tortuously outspoken of the dozen or so ’85 Bears still living off that season, gave praise, though he pointedly refrained from crediting Smith.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2010
"Probably the crankiest, too," said Jeremy, as Mary Lou reached her hand toward the cage.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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