crankiest
- superlative of cranky.
Example Sentences
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There’s Ba humbugi, a Fiji snail referencing one of literature’s crankiest men.
From Science Magazine • May 10, 2022
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
Even Dan Hampton, the crankiest and most tortuously outspoken of the dozen or so ’85 Bears still living off that season, gave praise, though he pointedly refrained from crediting Smith.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2010
She’d even joined the toad racing team and gotten stuck with the slowest, crankiest toad of the lot.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
