crankish

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Adjective
  • They are set to reprise their roles as Jet and Frances, respectively, the Owens sisters’ eccentric aunts who educate them on all things magic.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Originally a mansion built in 1881, the 14-room boutique hotel feels like staying at your eccentric friend’s country home in the best way; splashy decor and mixed prints characterize the aesthetic, and many of the pieces are handmade or one-of-a-kind.
    Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • When the pie dough is exposed to heat, the butter will melt and produce steam, which creates small air pockets that give the crust a light and flaky texture.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This should still be a tender, light, flaky crust.
    Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Red mesh iron bookshelves and traditional Italian kitchen towels suspended like airy curtains from the ceiling add to the quirky interior.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But after Hyundai launched Santro — a quirky looking hatchback, priced right in the comfort zone of middle-class India — there was no looking back.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet last week’s warning from Jet2, a business respected for its cost control and excellent customer service, has served as a reminder that, for all the impressive growth of recent years, this remains a volatile and sometimes unpredictable sector.
    Ian King, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • While any single month can be volatile and revisions can further change our understanding, hiring ground to a halt in May and June in the uncertain aftermath of the Liberation Day tariff announcements.
    Jeffrey Schulze, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The blast radius of Carl Rinsch‘s extravagant spending habits and Netflix‘s impetuous handing out of millions in the Golden Age of Streaming now has the feds footing the bills.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The dynamic changes from drag dialogue to an aging aristocrat-wannabe and her impetuous male ingenue.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • The drama will center on a mercurial woman (Blanchett) with a strange and piercing gift — the ability to see what others most intimately need, often at great personal cost — who sets out on a journey home.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Sweetsick, which Birch also wrote, follows a mercurial woman (Blanchett) with a strange and piercing gift – the ability to see what others most intimately need, often at great personal cost – who sets out on a journey home.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Crankish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crankish. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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