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- verb Present participle of
crankle .
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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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