His methods, once dismissed as cranky and left-field are now accepted practice.

Trust me-theycan get as cranky as people when they're hungry.

The colony looked an interesting place, and certainly wasn't as cranky as she'd feared.

Phoebe tried not to sound as cranky as she felt.

He's as cranky and unsound as he can be.

She didn't sound as cranky as she'd like.

In any other context, however, that argument would be written off as cranky, and certainly not British.

I sounded as cranky as I felt.

Even someone as cranky as Alby.

I'd be ten times as cranky as he is, if I was pestered by every old podogger that's got stuff to sell.

But as he went, there was a quiver of lip and flicker of eyelid, the lightening, as Cranky called it, was evidently gaining ground.

"There has to be some reason why I keep coming back to see a man as cranky and ill-tempered as you are."