I recall, once I was in a cranky mood and failed Averin, and Svirski refused to be examined by me.

But as his score on his card kept mounting, into the 80's and beyond, so did his cranky mood.

Extended speculation without hard facts tended to leave the Vulcan in a decidedly cranky mood.

One could turn on her at any time, for no reason other than a cranky mood, but the longer she watched, the more fascinating they became.

To their credit, the A's have not developed a cranky or defensive mood because of their October failures.

The troubled answers about the campaign against terrorism at home and abroad conveyed a similar fatalistic, slightly cranky mood.

Most years I try on 400, hate them all and go home in a cranky mood to yell at my children.

That might be the way Starmen conducted their affairs, but the Voertrekker-Praesident, particularly in his present cranky mood, was certain not to like it.

So she was in a cranky mood when she arrived.

The other day, Elizabeth, my six-year-old, was in a cranky mood and wouldn't get dressed.