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Перевод: cranky
[прилагательное] расшатанный; неисправный; раздраженный; капризный; всем недовольный; с причудами; эксцентричный; слабый; извилистый; полный закоулков
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- He was as cranky as a bad-tempered goat, always putting his head down and charging into things that annoyed him.
- I managed to pass behind some tall screens on which those ridiculously huge contemporary paintings, works of the utmost nullity, were hung, and crept cautiously round a group of cranky statues.
- Some of them are cranky, but many are nutritionally very sound.
- Still, better than Patrick Leigh Fermor, endless garbage about local customs, ravishing scenery, enchanting cranky locals.
- We have schemes to overcome the greenhouse effect by seeding the oceans with iron (marginally feasible), and we have had cranky schemes to pipe ground-level ozone pollution up into the stratosphere to reduce the ozone deficit (not feasible).
- It's no longer thought of as cranky or old-fashioned, as the press tries to make out, but as a much-needed way of helping to preserve this world by finding alternatives to chemicals and peat-cutting.
- cranky diets
- Sir Leon Brittan has tried to argue that the concept of sovereignty is fundamentally archaic and cranky, fit only for medieval speculation.
- He espoused a variety of scientific, social and political causes, some sound, some controversial, some downright cranky.
- The ideas outlined here may seem a bit odd, cranky even, and certainly inconvenient and impractical.
- Tigrett, who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation, falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould: he is even married to Maureen, former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison's Natural Law Party.
- Peter's an extraordinarily cranky man with a venom that became directed towards Katherine.
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