Sentence example with the word 'crankiness'

crankiness

Definition n. a fussy and eccentric disposition

Last update: June 18, 2015


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But it works faithfully nevertheless, and never balks, at least not with the same crankiness as the horse, and always runs better toward night (this is curious, but it is a fact), which a horse seldom does.   [Please select]

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She bemeaned him until at last I asked her why she didn't leave him, and added that I would not stand such crankiness for one moment.   [Please select]

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Shall we not remember that our trying, cranky, stubborn patient is a sick person, and learn to treat that stubbornness or crankiness as a symptom indicating her need, just as we would a rising temperature.   [Please select]

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A stout Bulawayo bourgeois was holding forth on the crankiness of Cecil Rhodes in choosing to be so lonely.   [Please select]

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His discrimination had been received coldly by the Canon Superintendent, and liberally discounted on the scores of dullness, crankiness, want of vision, yes jealousy.   [Please select]

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"And I," I retorted, "am not going to be browbeaten in my own home by one-foot-nothing of crankiness and chiffon."   [Please select]

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