Crossword-Solution: CRANKINESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crankiness | n. | Crankness. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “CRANKINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A FUSSY AND ECCENTRIC DISPOSITION | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
MOOEINT
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with CRANKINESS (5)
With an old maid’s usual crankiness and inability to adapt herself to the order of things, Cousin Fanny remained behind.
You have not mastered the first principles of its actions upon a human being." The committee was about to break into an angry reply to this brusque comment, but the chairman of the Electrical Company tapped his forehead to claim its indulgence for the crankiness of the speaker.
Borderland insanity, crankiness, insane temperament, loss of mental balance, psychopathic degeneration (to use a few of the many synonyms by which it has been called), has certain peculiarities and liabilities which, when combined with a superior quality of intellect in an individual, make it more probable that he will make his mark and affect his age, than if his temperament were less neurotic.
There is of course no special affinity between crankiness as such and superior intellect,(7) for most psychopaths have feeble intellects, and superior intellects more commonly have normal nervous systems.
Nor, on the whole, should I be unwilling, if it were safe, to let people see how great ability may be defeated by the crankiness of fortune.
Quotes with CRANKINESS (3)
It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a whole different person.
A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness.
There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a reader or a nonreader--it was quickly noted. There was no greater distinction between people. People were amazed when he asserted that and many shook their head at such crankiness. But that's how it was.