Crossword-Solution: CRANKY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cranky | a. | Full of spirit; crank. |
| Cranky | a. | Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety. |
| Cranky | a. | Unsteady; easy to upset; crank. |
We have 95 clues for the answer “CRANKY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like Barbara Mikulski, it's said | 1 answer |
| Inclined to fuss | 1 answer |
| Hangry and tired, maybe | 1 answer |
| Exhibiting the effects of too little sleep, say | 1 answer |
| Crabby, as a baby | 1 answer |
| 7-Dwarfs' cross kin? | 1 answer |
| cankered | 5 answers |
| Vinegarish | 6 answers |
| waspy | 8 answers |
| ornery | 20 answers |
| Ill-tempered | 22 answers |
| Bearish | 45 answers |
| snarly | 48 answers |
| Ratty | 51 answers |
| Rancorous | 53 answers |
| growling | 55 answers |
| Temperamental | 61 answers |
| Acrimonious | 61 answers |
| unkindly | 62 answers |
| Curt | 65 answers |
| in a rut | 65 answers |
| snuffy | 65 answers |
| thwarting | 66 answers |
| asocial | 66 answers |
| Stand-offish | 66 answers |
| dyspeptic | 67 answers |
| curmudgeonly | 67 answers |
| misanthropic | 67 answers |
| ALIENATED | 67 answers |
| splenetic | 67 answers |
| antisocial | 68 answers |
| sneering | 68 answers |
| hypercritical | 68 answers |
| whining | 68 answers |
| scornful | 69 answers |
| quarrelling | 69 answers |
| GROUCHY | 69 answers |
| Moody | 69 answers |
| inhospitable | 69 answers |
| condescending | 69 answers |
| Edgy | 70 answers |
| crotchety | 70 answers |
| unmannerly | 70 answers |
| Imprudent | 70 answers |
| contumelious | 70 answers |
| Snappy. | 70 answers |
| Opprobrious | 71 answers |
| frustrated | 71 answers |
| fed up | 72 answers |
| cavalier | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CRANKY (5)
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
She would have made a captain of the foretop in the old days." "She is a very remarkable woman." "A very cranky one." "A very sensible one in some things," remarked Mrs.
And then at night--oh, you'll have your artist--sure! He'll come in stinking of gasoline, and cranky from hard work, and hinting around that if it hadn't been for you, he'd of gone East and been a great artist.
His conceptions tend to pass immediately into belief and action; and when he gets a new idea, he has no rest till he proclaims it, or in some way “works it off.” “What shall I think of it?” a common person says to himself about a vexed question; but in a “cranky” mind “What must I do about it?” is the form the question tends to take.
About half-way over, I met the superintendent (a leper) with a horse for me, and O, wasn’t I glad! But the horse was one of those curious, dogged, cranky brutes that always dully want to go somewhere else, and my traffic with him completed my crushing fatigue.
Quotes with CRANKY (3)
I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.
Excruciating agony makes me cranky.
You should really go inside now,” he said. Her glazed, unfocused stare was starting to clear, and the cranky look he was used to being levelled at him started to take shape. “And if I don’t?”“You want to fuck me on your doorstep?” he asked, his voice low and gravelly. “Call me tomorrow when you’re sober. I’ll be right over.” She jutted her chin defiantly — clearly pissed at him for trying to be the responsible one. “I won’t need you after I’ve spent all night with a couple of…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1981–2023).