cranky

Not in good working condition; defective, faulty.

We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts. One was small, one was cranky, and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky. The other three were good.

Margaret Cerullo gave a rousing speech, despite the pesky interruptions of a cranky sound system.

Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.

He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky.

Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.

Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he'll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be.

Synonym of crank (“of a ship: liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast”).

a cranky vessel

Full of spirit; spirited.