cranky
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We may have been cranky, but we were also decent people .
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 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 cows might be cranky, but they were never in that good a mood anyway.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
“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
"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
And when that fails, the result is typically a contest to determine who can be crankier.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016
He was even crankier than usual, prone to disappearing for hours on end and not returning calls.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 4, 2015
Violet was crankier than ever as I milked her that night.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
She’d even joined the toad racing team and gotten stuck with the slowest, crankiest toad of the lot.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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