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crankily
adv. In a cranky manner.
Usage examples of "crankily".
How he would have kept them hopping with the jaw-locked and angry issuance of memoranda, at the worst specifying his funeral hymns and coffin wood, followed by a long, crankily conversational convalescence.
At the moment the office of president was empty, and the question of reorganizing the government was being somewhat crankily debated.
In the cabin, sleepy passengers dozed, talked softly, stared out the windows into the desolate blackness of the night sky, wrapped in their own thoughts, A small child stirred in her sleep and moaned crankily, nuzzling into her mother's side.
Queeg said crankily, passing the despatch to the exec. He glanced up at the sun, which was about an hour and a half above the horizon.