How To Use Crankiness In A Sentence
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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
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The fact that she knows hormones are causing her temporary crankiness doesn't make the feelings any less real, so cut her some slack.
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If you cut back, your body shows signs of caffeine withdrawal, like headaches, crankiness and sleepiness.
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He was tending towards crankiness.
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The results show that the mental health problems of undergraduates mainly exist in the respects such as interpersonal relationships, compelling, hostility, crankiness etc.
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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!
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Make note of the incoherent speech, grammatical errors, cutesy nicknames with reporters, and crankiness from the president and obsequiousness from the press.
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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
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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
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Yeah, I think that most people have moments of total crankiness.
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Poets use language sometimes to tell horrible truths or offer recipes for healing – Ms. Giovanni’s wit, courage and just plain crankiness have served her well over the years, and now those same qualities will help her students at Virginia Tech. These are her gifts.
Ms. G in the Pulpit. : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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And yet she couldn't remember one time when he had aimed that crankiness or meanness at her.
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Andy, my crankiness comes from the fact that so many "picture books for older readers" are forced by the nature of the form to take an either cursory or superficial approach to problems "possibly not resolvable in a thirty-two page format," as former HB editor Anita Silvey put it.
"Mad Bitches Against Gay People"
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The only emotional drama I'll get into with my robot partner is what I've programmed into it. No jealousy, no hormones, no overtired crankiness, no insecurity, no 'tude.
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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. James Russell Lowell
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Administrative organization may restrict its discretionary power through self-discipline, but the administrative crankiness to efficiency can not fully prevent the infringement of civil rights.
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Tarek Fatah jumped the shark quite some time ago, but his increasing crankiness is still news.
Archive 2009-10-01
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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. James Russell Lowell
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Just last month, a full 14 months since my last period, I had a miserable 3-4 weeks of bloating, breast tenderness, crankiness and a 5 pound weight gain, along with a pleasant little blip in libido, followed by a whopping migraine the likes of which I had not had for months, followed by a week long episode of vaginal bleeding.
Menopause Defined
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Parents, midwives, health visitors, and doctors blame teething for a wide range of symptoms in babies, including diarrhoea, drooling, crankiness, rashes, and strong smelling urine.
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As a person ages, the signs of depression are much more likely to be dismissed as crankiness or grumpiness.
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As a person ages, the signs of depression are much more likely to be dismissed as crankiness or grumpiness.
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With us there was no lack of mutual respect, except in matters of faith and practice; but he no more tolerated my "crankiness," lunacy -- perhaps imbecility -- in withholding food from the sick than I his paganism in enforcing it.
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure
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But the A9 was choked with roadworks and elderly Germans in caravans, causing much crankiness and scoffing of chocolate digestives.
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But it is more likely that our crankiness was the result of the supper we had eaten the previous night.
The Story Girl
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She had her moments of surpassing crankiness today, but that's normal.
