Cranky in a sentence as an adjective

If you have a cranky IT staff member, ask him/her to help you with a problem you know they can fix.

My recipe for dealing with "cranky" proprietary software like this:Step 1.

rant> I am so sick of these democracy doesn't work, the powers that be own us, utterly worthless statements.

They'd sit there, diddle on their laptops or phones, and then get cranky and exasperated when you'd tell them, "no, sorry...there are no slides.

But if most folks are like the cranky, older version of me now, if they wanted finicky transportation that needs constant maintenance they'd buy a horse.

In each case, it was way too easy for the team to say "Old Jim is just a grumpy old guy, cranky and he has a bad attitude" than it was to meet Jim half-way and go forward.

I guess I'm well on my way to being a cranky old man at the tender age of 34, but I find it extremely unlikely I'll ever use any device like glass on a regular basis.

You'll see whether they get cranky or stay optimistic, whether they're disorganized or not, whether they carry more or less of their fair share of the load, whether they get on your nerves, etc.

Forgive me, perhaps it's the cranky Britishness in me coming out like an uncontrollable fountain of bile, but sweet jesus this bloke is an insufferable hipster.

The fact that you're setting up DHH as a foil to Linus is exactly why the old men are cranky; when it comes to technology, Linus has more qualifications in his pinky than DHH has all put together.

" Soylent with cure it!Obviously, I'm a cranky minority, but the absolute lack of intellectual honesty and rigor presented in the claims on their Kick Starter put a sour taste in my mouth over the whole thing.

Cranky definitions

adjective

(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

See also: crank tender tippy

adjective

easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"