Lexicographical Neighbors of Crankish
Literary usage of Crankish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Wit and Humor by Joel Chandler Harris (1907)
"He is long since ded, as he himself would have put it, but his phonetic theory
appears to have survived him in crankish brains here and there. ..."
2. The First Hague Conference by Andrew Dickson White (1905)
"The queer letters and crankish proposals which come in every day are amazing.
I have just added to my collection of diplomatic curiosities a letter from the ..."
3. Report of the Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration (1907)
"Various evidences of it reached The Hague from the United States, some, of course,
crankish and hysterical, but most of them showing a feeling of amazing ..."
4. The Remaking of a Mind: A Soldier's Thoughts on War and Reconstruction by Hendrik de Man (1919)
"I never agreed with all his ideas, thinking him somewhat crankish and too impulsive
at times. I am sure, nevertheless, that he would never have become the ..."
5. An Old Town by the Sea (Portsmouth, N.H.) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1893)
"He is long since ded, as he himself would have put it, but his phonetic theory
appears to have survived him in crankish brains here and there. ..."
6. American Wit and Humor by Joel Chandler Harris (1907)
"He is long since ded, as he himself would have put it, but his phonetic theory
appears to have survived him in crankish brains here and there. ..."
7. The First Hague Conference by Andrew Dickson White (1905)
"The queer letters and crankish proposals which come in every day are amazing.
I have just added to my collection of diplomatic curiosities a letter from the ..."
8. Report of the Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration (1907)
"Various evidences of it reached The Hague from the United States, some, of course,
crankish and hysterical, but most of them showing a feeling of amazing ..."
9. The Remaking of a Mind: A Soldier's Thoughts on War and Reconstruction by Hendrik de Man (1919)
"I never agreed with all his ideas, thinking him somewhat crankish and too impulsive
at times. I am sure, nevertheless, that he would never have become the ..."
10. An Old Town by the Sea (Portsmouth, N.H.) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1893)
"He is long since ded, as he himself would have put it, but his phonetic theory
appears to have survived him in crankish brains here and there. ..."
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