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(Used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail.
tender
crank
cranky
unstable
tender
crank
cranky
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
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.
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.
6
An egg balanced on a broom on top of a flea's
tippy
top hair!
7
I walked around the side of the house and stood on
tippy
toes, looking in.
8
Toddlers with the mental capacity to form complex escape plans using blocks and
tippy
cups.
9
Standing on her
tippy
-
toes
and raising her eyebrows, the pink-haired, 20-year-old Australian wears quirky well.
10
He could only reach up to my stomach, even standing on his
tippy
-
toes
and stretching.
11
A quick jerk brought Barry up on his
tippy
-
toes
.
12
Once again they
tippy
-
tapped
up the concrete stairs and made their way unsteadily to their room.
13
That was how Tommy described himself:
tippy
,
but enthusiastic-whenhe wasn't Dipsy-Down ,ashe called it.
14
At her command I crawled into the tight tube and up and down the
tippy
board.
15
She puts away the lipstick, zips the bag, steadies herself in her
tippy
heels, and goes.
16
The
tippy
top schools like Harvard and Stanford will give you the money you need to attend.
tippy
·
tippy top
very tippy
begin tippy
go on tippy
little tippy