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.
Tampa police encountered a cranky alligator in the street and used rope, duct tape and a bit of wrestling to wrangle the reptile.
From BBC
It was well wrought but inevitably one-dimensional: Janina’s distinctive narrative voice, which treads a fine line between eccentric and downright cranky, is integral to the novel’s charm; the story feels flat without it.
From New York Times
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