cranky

“You can certainly see the market get cranky about that.”

From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026

"If you get cranky with family, just know it's because you're tired," she told them at one point.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

If Elvis was ever cranky, that’s been stripped out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Or Santos bristling at her new boss’s insistence on clearing her charting backlog while tending cranky patients.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026

Sammy, cranky since the time he’d gotten up, had to be dragged away from the railing of the bridge.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

"You get older, you get crankier, and comfort becomes more important. I think it's as simple as that," Pitt told Esquire in an interview published Thursday.

From Fox News ● Sep. 3, 2021

Neil Young is crankier than a hermit being stung by bees.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2019

And when that fails, the result is typically a contest to determine who can be crankier.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016

Look, no one wants to criticize this pair of amazing comediennes—being forced into it by a mediocre pile of clichés makes me even crankier.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2015

Ma was crankier and Buddy seemed to cry more.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

There’s Ba humbugi, a Fiji snail referencing one of literature’s crankiest men.

From Science Magazine ● May 10, 2022

“Sometimes I can add something from a younger perspective,” Ms. Rose said, referring to America’s crankiest judge as Nana.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2021

He’s hosting a dinner for the rest of the Freys, an uncharacteristically spontaneous celebration from one of Game of Thrones’ crankiest old bastards.

From The Verge ● Jul. 17, 2017

Part of this animosity stems from McCain’s status as the crankiest of the Senate’s many cranky old men.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2015

"Probably the crankiest, too," said Jeremy, as Mary Lou reached her hand toward the cage.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville