crankily

"I want to sit up," he said crankily like an old invalid.

Edmund Wilson voiced that criticism 40 years ago, crankily and accurately.

The car crankily shifts into gear and Gabriel turns on the headlights.

For better or worse, 20th-century America is richly, crankily diverse.

"Don't imagine me as your universal protagonist," she warns crankily.

"I think they're gonna lose the whole thing," he said crankily, his voice coming in short, emphatic bursts.

"Why didn't you tell me you were coming home," Quark's mother said crankily.

"An odd oversight for an anthropologist," I retorted crankily.

It seems to puff and strain at its own crankily rock-shaped outline as the artist's breath goes in.

Pedestrians strolled along the sidewalks, many with children who were either all eyes and grins or whining crankily.

Later, again nettled by the incessant complaints, the prosecutor once more crankily relented.

"Don't pray now," said the old man crankily.

"What's I'll tall you what's wrong," she shouted crankily.

"Boring to talk about," he said, crankily.

"There is a doorbell," he said crankily.

At the moment the office of president was empty, and the question of reorganizing the government was being somewhat crankily debated.

Queeg said crankily, passing the despatch to the exec.

As the givers of presents and parties can crankily attest, Americans are not punctilious about expressing gratitude.

"He wasn't living en we were finished shooting him, if that sounds better," said Whiteside crankily.

Several times she wondered if it hadn't broken down, and looked at the giant winder-upper, only to see it crankily winding away.

His art shocked by its unvarnished emotion and its persistent emphasis on a personal, not to say crankily eccentric, truth.

"A dipper board," I said crankily.

"I have nothing in common with the Jews," Franz Kafka wrote crankily in his diary.

And Charles Ives crankily divided the entire Western tradition into male and female.

Mate disagreed crankily.