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  • verb Present participle of crankle.

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Examples

  • VARGAS: And crankling her forehead when SHOWBIZ TONIGHT asked Bette Midler about Lindsay, Paris and Britney ` s late-night hijinks, Madame Bette said too much time and no good advice is keeping these ladies down.

    CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2006 2006

  • Silently, they paddled along, sheltered from observation by the little wooded promontory and following as nearly as possible the crankling river as it indented into the land.

    Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage

  • The unnatural and crankling proceeding of his trying to woo a German girl was smoothed away into a genial indifference.

    Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906

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