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Examples

  • I think most voters today saw the visual on the screen and said I cannot take that old, crankly, grumpy negative face for four years.

    Snap Polls Give Overwhelming Win to Obama 2009

  • Maybe I found myself liking him because in the clips of himself as a younger man, he looked like an extremely crankly Michael J. Fox.

    Dreams of Harlan Ellison Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008

  • Maybe I found myself liking him because in the clips of himself as a younger man, he looked like an extremely crankly Michael J. Fox.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008

  • Its 1: 36 and Chase is up and cranky crankly cranky thus I am up.

    mamarobbi Diary Entry mamarobbi 2003

  • Touch Sensitive Great, as usual, and especially with the crankly (TM) extra noise on top of Julia's somewhat softer strumming

    FallNet - Hovis set-up in London's psoriasis 1998

  • I am sure they will be able to take care of changing your diaper real soon and you won't be so crankly.

    Homeland Stupidity 2009

  • She was accompanied by babydaddy Peter Sarsgaard who's got one of those "I'm crankly, lately" beards going on.

    Socialite Life 2008

  • This is not like when I rant about office politics, or who yelled at who for some stupid shit, or even an influx of particularly crankly oldsters.

    blue-parade Diary Entry blue-parade 2004

  • But, bless his cowly head and press his crankly hat, what a world’s woe is each’s

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • One of them had a very curious tangle of veins on the left cheek behind the trigger; and I just had been doing for the children’s tea what they call ‘crinkly-crankly’ — treacle trickled (like a maze) upon the bread; and Tommy said, ‘Look here! it is the very same upon this gun.’

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

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