crankily
- adverb
- /ˈkræŋkɪli/
:
de mal humor
- "Who told you?" she asked crankily.
Examples
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She answered the question crankily, clearly annoyed by the interruption.
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"Do you ever have good weather in Idaho?" I ask crankily.
Fiction book (1994) -
But at length, Billy Jack merely grunted, wheeled about, and made his way into the woods, muttering and snuffling crankily.
Fiction book (1990) -
When I suggested going out for ice cream, he looked at me crankily and said he wasn't in the mood.
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The child sulked crankily after losing the game, refusing to play anymore.
Synonyms
8
4.1
In an annoyed or impatient way
3
6.3
Talk in a rough, unfriendly way
2
8.1
In a childish, annoyed way that shows impatience
1
7.6
In a short angry way that shows you are annoyed
1
3.0
In a bad mood and speaking or acting in an unhappy way
1
6.8
In an angry way
1
7.8
To act in an annoyed or offended way
In a bad mood and easily annoyed
In a bad mood and complaining
In an easily annoyed way
In an angry, sharp way that shows someone is annoyed
In an angry way that shows someone gets annoyed easily
Antonyms
How Irritable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crankily comes from the adjective cranky, which comes from crank, a word for a bent handle on a machine; imagine someone 'turned' the wrong way by a crank and so becomes easily upset. So crankily means 'in a bad-tempered, irritable way'.