A shopper holding a cranky child will not sign the same way he or she might while at a desk.

It's no easy task: creating pictures of cranky children is an art form beyond photography.

Shameful, too, because she was a grown woman, not a cranky child.

She sounded like a cranky child to her own ears.

Laura resisted rubbing at her eyes like a cranky child.

She said it as she might to a cranky child.

A visit to Disneyland with cranky children is an ordeal for everyone.

They provide sustenance for cranky children, but not much in the way of pleasure.

Another had slammed a cranky child into a wall.

I wondered if other parents had ever had shopping trips cut short by a cranky child.