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Easily irritated or annoyed.
irritable
petulant
peevish
fractious
scratchy
testy
tetchy
pettish
peckish
techy
ill-natured
(Used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail.
tender
crank
tippy
unstable
tender
crank
tippy
1
Change the water and bring to boil for ten minutes until
tender
.
2
Construction companies, which often
tender
for government contracts, are the most affected.
3
However, the public was reminded that the new coin is valid
tender
.
4
Her voice faltered; a
tender
thought changed the form of the argument.
5
She said, however, that ICL would still receive priority in the
tender
.
1
Last year's debut model could
crank
through 600 billion operations per second.
2
Needless to say, Bennewitz was treated by many as simply a
crank
.
3
He had attempted in vain to take the pedal off the
crank
.
4
Of course, I may also have persuaded them that I'm a
crank
.
5
He only hoped the article wouldn't increase the rate of
crank
visits.
1
There isn't a New Englander on the payroll, even at the
tippy
top.
2
Barry suddenly found himself another inch higher up on his
tippy
-
toes
.
3
They parked themselves on Isabel's sofa with their laptops and began
tippy
-
tapping
away.
4
His selfimportant partner was
tippy
at the best of times.
5
He'd
tippy
-
toed
out at the crack of dawn, and he'd left Bob with me.
1
His methods, once dismissed as
cranky
and left-field are now accepted practice.
2
Though there could be a million explanations, that, too, made me
cranky
.
3
She's getting used to the gravity, but the drugs make her
cranky
.
4
He's
cranky
as a bear with toothache when we're still setting up.
5
I was
cranky
thinking about what I was about to see, Lego.
6
Above all, you try not to get
cranky
,
purely out of self-preservation.
7
At seven I rolled myself out of bed, feeling
cranky
and bedraggled.
8
She often mentions this theory her pastor has about
cranky
little bees.
9
You're grumpy now, you'll be real
cranky
when you arrive in town.
10
Everyone wants a baby, not a
cranky
toddler or a fractious six-year-old.
11
Tessa ground her pink gums together and made a
cranky
growling sound.
12
They were all too heavy and they were
cranky
to a degree.
13
All-nighters took their toll, and it made me
cranky
to admit it.
14
He was that
cranky
at times there was no living with him.
15
Those flat bottomed boats with their large heavy awnings are very
cranky
.
16
On an ordinary day, she was bound to get a little
cranky
.
cranky
get cranky
so cranky
very cranky
as cranky
feel cranky