What's the difference between angry and cranky?

Angry


Definition:

  • (superl.) Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.
  • (superl.) Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
  • (superl.) Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.
  • (superl.) Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves.
  • (superl.) Red.
  • (superl.) Sharp; keen; stimulated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet those who have remained committed have become ever more angry.
  • (2) But it still seemed unlikely, despite the angry and determined mood, that the kingdom would risk ground operations, informed sources said – not least because the main strongholds of Isis are far away in northeastern Syria and across the border in Iraq.
  • (3) He was angry that the journal had not asked him to review the paper, or at least comment on it, before publication.
  • (4) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
  • (5) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
  • (6) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
  • (7) I don't like it when people say, 'The youth are angry.
  • (8) But with this, they have managed to mobilise the young, and we are very angry.
  • (9) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
  • (10) 12.35pm BST Want to feel depressed and a bit angry at modern football?
  • (11) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
  • (12) RBS chief executive Ross McEwan apologised to consumers: “To say I’m angry would be an understatement.
  • (13) They’re angry because they can’t afford to send their kids to college so they can’t retire with dignity.” One of the signs that voters still lack confidence in the US job market is the labor participation rate, which in 2015 reached its lowest point in 38 years.
  • (14) Conservative MPs and constituency chairmen have been handling hundreds of complaints from grassroots activists angry at David Cameron's desire to legalise gay marriage amid further defections from the party and resignations among rank and file members.
  • (15) Verbally abused children were more angry and more pessimistic about their future.
  • (16) But, as always, watch the Mail – and watch it fall into familiar angry mode.
  • (17) This is a dangerous moment for politics in Britain: it is not the moment to ignore or belittle the angry cry from voters telling us they are deeply sick of politics as usual.
  • (18) : Would you feel angry?, produced significantly more affirmative responses (reports of feeling angry) than non-inducing questions, e.g.
  • (19) This prompted an angry response from the bill's sponsors who accused opponents of using border security as an excuse to block any immigration reform.
  • (20) It was very tense, they were very angry, but we tried to be respectful, while explaining that I was doing my job taking photos.

Cranky


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of spirit; crank.
  • (a.) Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety.
  • (a.) Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What better symbol of the crankiness of the current protests against economic orthodoxy could David Cameron and Nick Clegg wish for?
  • (2) ‘You sound like my old, cranky uncle.’ Yes, I am your old, cranky uncle.
  • (3) Fellow Tory minister Ken Clarke warned the Greeks of "serious consequences" if they voted for "cranky extremists ".
  • (4) (If he were Malcolm Turnbull, a certain News Corp columnist might write a cranky blog post.)
  • (5) Dr al-Zayyat has said she could not carry out a full examination because the baby was "miserable and cranky".
  • (6) The banks have been very cranky about the levy since it leaked yesterday morning.
  • (7) The justice secretary did not define what he meant by "cranky extremists".
  • (8) From Kozlova Zaseka station, a cranky old bus takes you up to Tolstoy's house.
  • (9) She read a lot of science and economics texts - "the most eccentric passage of my life" - and the resulting polemic, about the dumping of nuclear waste, attracted some cranky reviews in the science press, although she says her findings were hardly startling.
  • (10) She examined Baby P at a child development clinic at St Ann's hospital, in north London , and although she noticed bruises to his body she decided not to carry out a full examination because the child was ''cranky and miserable''.
  • (11) Tony Abbott spent yesterday looking pretty cranky, particularly when people criticised his proposal to bring back knights and dames .
  • (12) As recent touring shows of Picasso estate leftovers have demonstrated, the cranky Spaniard was prolific right up until the end of his life, producing works of varying quality.
  • (13) Reluctant to defend profits made by banks using cheap QE funds, Krugman accused his rival of being a "cranky old man" and using "context and model-free numbers embedded in a rant".
  • (14) Clarke warned: "If they get a hopeless lot of cranky extremists elected at the next election then they will default on their debt and everybody says they will leave the euro – actually that's quite likely but it doesn't necessarily follow, but they'll default on their debt."
  • (15) "If they get a hopeless lot of rather cranky extremists elected at the next election then they will default on their debt."
  • (16) Dr Sabah al-Zayyat notes bruises to his body and face but does not perform a full examination because he is "miserable and cranky".
  • (17) Greece will face a disastrous future in which it will default on its debts and may be forced to leave the euro if it votes for "cranky extremists" in next month's general election, Ken Clarke has warned.
  • (18) He thanked journalists – whom he described as a “cranky, cantankerous lot” – for rallying around and pressing for his release.
  • (19) There probably isn't enough certain scientific evidence yet (how long did it take for Richard Doll to gain a following for his cranky smoking-causes-lung-cancer theories?)
  • (20) She was “cranky” over the suggestion that the Coalition was reducing payments to patients.