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The phrase "cranky about" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It expresses someone's feelings of being irritable, impatient, or easily annoyed about something. Example: My boss has been cranky about the new project deadline. She keeps yelling at us for making small mistakes.
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And they are notoriously cranky about being packed and shipped.
And we had a lot of things to be cranky about".
Some of the members of my book group were very cranky about this book.
It's no secret that lefty campaigners can be cranky about business elites.
It's the nature of social conservatives to be cranky about contemporary trends, often to a fault.
I can be pretty cranky about this, being kept from the water.
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But Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, should treat the furious Finns as yet another sign that her gradualist approach to the euro crisis is not working.The longer Mrs Merkel waits to unveil a grand bargain, the more Europe seems to come apart (the Dutch are also getting crankier about bail-outs—see article).
His on-off veganism was allied to cranky theories about health.
As for his cranky remark about my absence from "Best American Poetry," why, I hadn't really noticed.
It's not that there aren't other places online to get information and cranky opinions about what Ambrose Bierce defined as "a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries".
This is the problem faced by Robert, who responds to his mother's cranky letters about caring for Winton Manor (not to mention her husband and brother-in-law) by recruiting a potential buyer for the decrepit property — only to find that his mother and clan are not as keen on downsizing as their constant complaints suggested.
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