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Cranky
Cranky meaning
Not in good working condition; defective, faulty. | Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset. | Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
Example sentences (20)
High GI foods leave you starving, cranky, and much more prone to a cheat meal to make up for the feeling.
I didn’t start out cranky.
My blotchy, cranky skin loves it,” wrote a second shopper.
She also crosses paths with other inhabitants of the Greybourne as she learns disturbing secrets: cranky Mrs. Ivy (Kelly Bishop, “Gilmore Girls”); teenager Elliott (Lex Lumpkin); and fellow nanny Ginny (Aliyah Royale).
Snyder sued The Washington City Paper for $1 million alleging that the 2010 article, “The Cranky Redskins Fan’s Guide to Dan Snyder,” defamed him and included an antisemitic depiction of him.
The 76-year-old “Wheel of Fortune” host got a little cranky when he urged a player named Nicole to just “solve the darn puzzle” on Wednesday evening’s show.
The idea of powering ships with rigid wings dates back at least to the nineteen-sixties, when an English aeronautics engineer named John Walker spent his weekends in a cranky, old yacht.
A cranky history teacher at a remote prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student who has no place to go.
Esha, in her book Amma Mia, shared, “After my second baby, for a short while, I noticed that Bharat was cranky and irritated with me.
If 2023 left you feeling stressed, cranky and in need of a peaceful getaway, you’re not alone.
I factored that in at the time and also, he was sick and extra cranky.
I’m willing to bet it’s Jackie Hoffman’s character, the cranky old lady who was friends with Bunny whose name I forgot.
In this 70s-set character-driven drama, a cranky professor (Paul Giamatti) bonds with a grieving campus cook (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) and a smart but defiant student (Dominic Sessa) at an elite New England prep school over the course of a Christmas break.
Janelle unloaded on him while the cameras rolled, and Meri seemed exhausted whenever she was around the cranky polygamist.
Murphy is likely to face competition from Paul Giamatti, who has also won plaudits for his performance as a cranky prep school teacher forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student in drama The Holdovers.
She might be cranky.
She's surly and cranky, as most of her thoughts are consumed with anger and worry for her son, who has become besotted with Quiteria and spends most of his time with the playwright instead of at home helping out the family.
And it makes you cranky.
As I have frequently bragged, my husband, Peter, cuts my hair and this has continued while the beauty parlors are closed and everyone is growing increasingly cranky.
But I’m also enough of an extrovert — whenever I’ve been tested for such things, I’m always literally on the line between intro and extrovert — that I want to be around people and if I’m alone too long I get cranky.