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crankiness

NOUN
  1. a fussy and eccentric disposition

How To Use crankiness In A Sentence

  • Tim Stanley has noticed that Dr Paul is repeatedly showing signs of what I possibly not he would call crankiness in his answers. @timothy_stanley Paul's very frisky tonight. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The fact that she knows hormones are causing her temporary crankiness doesn't make the feelings any less real, so cut her some slack.
  • If you cut back, your body shows signs of caffeine withdrawal, like headaches, crankiness and sleepiness.
  • He was tending towards crankiness.
  • The results show that the mental health problems of undergraduates mainly exist in the respects such as interpersonal relationships, compelling, hostility, crankiness etc.
  • If you will read through the thread again, you will notice that it was you who raised the issue of "crankiness", not me. Best. Title. Ever!
  • Make note of the incoherent speech, grammatical errors, cutesy nicknames with reporters, and crankiness from the president and obsequiousness from the press.
  • My father was perhaps irritated by the slightly patronizing tone which Turgénieff adopted from the very outset of their acquaintance; and Turgénieff was irritated by my father's "crankiness," which distracted him from "his proper métier, literature. Reminiscences of Tolstoy
  • What you call crankiness in old people, so trying to the younger generations, does not arise from natural hatefulness of disposition and a released congenital selfishness, but from atrophying glands, and, no doubt, a subtle rebellion against nature for consigning men to ineptitude when they should be entering upon their best period of usefulness, and philosophical as well as active enjoyment of life. Black Oxen
  • Yeah, I think that most people have moments of total crankiness.
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