crankish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crankish
Adjective
  • Each episode is a mini movie, existing in its own world with a unique tone and vibe, featuring an eccentric lot of characters played by a truly gonzo parade of guest stars.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The participants, most of whom were women, underwent a two-week control period before completing four weeks of an eccentric exercise routine.
    Kristen Fischer, Health, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The lending revenue is meaningful only in portfolios that include flaky small companies.
    William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Some dry, flaky skin may not itch at all and would unlikely be atopic dermatitis.
    Team Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Some of the quirky challenges will include performing in front of middle schoolers and doing an elevator pitch in an actual elevator.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Jim Parsons won four Emmys for his portrayal of quirky super-genius Sheldon Cooper before Iain Armitage carried the mantle as Sheldon’s younger counterpart.
    Skyler Trepel, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Core inflation, which excludes more volatile energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices, rose by 3.4% in the year to March, down slightly from 3.5% in February.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Here’s what their analysis found: Only 8.4% of investors executed trades on any of those days, reacting to the volatile market by buying or selling stocks.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Raiff’s impetuous outbursts serve his babyish college kid well, and the writer-director’s honest dialogue and empathetic perspective are even more valuable.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
  • On the one hand, there is the impetuous, often swaggering young writer whose sometimes brash, sometimes tender personality vividly emerges from the hundred-odd poems that have come down to us.
    Daniel Mendelsohn, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The issue is that Murray is often mercurial, and he is often injured.
    Tony Jones, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The stock market’s been as mercurial as April weather.
    Gretta Monahan, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025
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“Crankish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crankish. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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