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crankily
adverb
mainly USinformaluk /ˈkræŋ.kəl.i/ us /ˈkræŋ.kəl.i/
in a way that shows that you are easily annoyed or upset:
"Give me a minute," he answered crankily.
When my toddler wakes at six, I crankily try to persuade him to go back to sleep.
in a way that is strange and unusual:
His mother was crankily religious and read him the story of Noah every time it rained heavily.
The monastery is now a ghost-ridden and crankily characterful hotel.
The children rubbed their eyes crankily, like bears.
She wanted to stay and play with her friends for a while, but her father was crankily trying to hurry her home.
He sat crankily in his armchair, arguing with his wife.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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be like a bear with a sore headidiom
be spoiling for a fightidiom
grouchy
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grumpiness
grumpy
have a short fuseidiom
pettishly
petulance
petulancy
petulant
petulantly
surlily
surliness
testily
testiness
testy
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