cranky

cranky
adj
1. grouchy, crabby, surly, sour, moody, crotchety; sulky, morose, sullen, whining; irascible, waspish, gruff, churlish, bearish; cross, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humored; irritable, splenetic, fretful, choleric; testy, petulant, snappish, peevish, captious, perverse; cantankerous, querulous, quarrelsome, contentious.
2. eccentric, odd, queer, bizarre, pixilated; capricious, whimsical, fickle; erratic, inconsistent, impulsive, flighty.
3. shaky, rickety, tottering, teetery; unsteady, precarious, unsound.
4. crooked, bent, curved, hooked, zigzag, angular; tortuous, sinuous, serpentine, winding.

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