crankily
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6.0
- adverb
- /ˈkræŋkɪli/
- "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
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4.1
In an annoyed or impatient way
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6.3
Talk in a rough, unfriendly way
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8.1
In a childish, annoyed way that shows impatience
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7.6
In a short angry way that shows you are annoyed
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3.0
In a bad mood and speaking or acting in an unhappy way
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7.8
To act in an annoyed or offended way
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6.8
In an angry way
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9.1
In an angry way that shows someone gets annoyed easily
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8.4
In an angry, sharp way that shows someone is annoyed
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5.8
In a bad mood and complaining
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9.9
In an easily annoyed way
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7.0
In a bad mood and easily annoyed
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'.