(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.
Glad
Definition:
(superl.) Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason.
(superl.) Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.
(v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
(v. i.) To be glad; to rejoice.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
(2) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
(3) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
(4) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
(5) I spoke with him, and he is glad to be back in the US.
(6) I’m glad cryonics is legal – we should all have rights over our bodies | Simon Jenkins Read more The world’s three major facilities - two in the US and KrioRus , a Russian centre on the outskirts of Moscow, differ slightly in price and ethos.
(7) With calls to boycott Amazon over its corporation tax avoidance, taxpayers may be glad of alternatives.
(8) I'm glad I didn't say I'd eat my shoe if one of Carragher and Terry didn't give away a penalty.
(9) In The gladness of life (1884: La joie de vivre) d'E.
(10) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
(11) The couple were glad about this, though modest in their ambitions for it.
(12) Holden Caulfield puts it in a slightly different way: "I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.
(13) 3.20pm BST Reaction from drilling industry Statoil spokesperson Bård Glad Pedersen says the Norwegian oil and gas company is exploring the Arctic through a step-by-step approach that builds on decades of experience in cold water regions.
(14) I spoke to the doctor on the pitch and he said it would be all right to carry on and I am glad I stayed there.
(15) As the dust settles and the truth comes out, it’s become totally clear that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind this fraud, and we’re glad they’re being held accountable.
(16) I'm glad to see that thanks to my calls, the Metropolitan police, the culture, media and sport select committee and the Press Complaints Commission are now investigating these claims.
(17) Benedict Brogan, who has written about this on his blog, says Cameron has "done it direct to camera (if Mr Clegg can look the voter in the eye, so can Dave), and it is interspersed with greatest hits from the crucial moments when Mr Cameron stood out from the pack as someone who is on the side of an angry electorate (these include his expenses press conference last May, his 'glad I got that off my chest' answer to Joey Jones at the manifesto launch, his defence of marriage tax, etc)."
(18) We are glad that the whole job [is] completed to mutual satisfaction and thanks to all who participated and helped to realise the biggest transfer in the club’s history.
(19) They didn't suffer fools gladly, and they ran everything with an iron fist."
(20) I was glad to receive some emails after the reversal applauding the decision as though all was forgiven and, I wondered, perhaps even soon to be forgotten.