cranky

Example Sentences

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I felt as if I were gazing into the future: Aunt Kitty looked like a cranky old matron, which was exactly what she was headed for if she didn’t start to lighten up.

From Literature

Or Santos bristling at her new boss’s insistence on clearing her charting backlog while tending cranky patients.

From Salon

The joke is on us, of course, and especially me, who lost out on at least an hour of extra REM and now has to find a cranky cat and trim her claws.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

"Let's just get pizza back at the house," he sighed - the kids were getting cranky and needed a shower.

From BBC