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Definition of "crankiest" []

  • Superlative form of cranky: most cranky. (adjective)

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Use "crankiest" in a sentence
  • "Watching the third episode made me smile, even laugh, and I continue to like the cast a great deal -- even Chi McBride at his crankiest is entertaining, especially as he ended up at the center of a bunch of Winnie The Pooh references."
  • "DAVE OBEY APPROPRIATES HIMSELF TO K STREET - Dave Obey, the crankiest president pro tempore that ever walked the land, is joining Dick Gephardt's lobbying shop."
  • "As the king-in-council succeeded the king by the grace of God, so in future democracies the toleration and encouragement of minorities and the willingness to consider as “men” the crankiest, humblest and poorest and blackest peoples, must be the real key to the consent of the governed."