How to Use grumpy in a Sentence

grumpy

adjective
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  • Our neighbor is a grumpy old man.
  • I was feeling grumpy after my long flight.
  • Nuñez has been doing this long enough to know how to avoid the grumpy ones.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
  • The water is high and cold, the fish grumpy and disinclined to rise.
    — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • But even this grumpy ol' wise man wrestled with his own code.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Rodgers is quirky and grumpy, and part of him does love being a Green Bay Packer.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Part of me wants to be grumpy that DJI is buzzing drones around Everest, but the footage is amazing.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Even the great Francis Guinan, playing the grumpy King of France, demurs to this life force.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2022
  • At one point, a classic NYC grumpy man throws a glass of water at him.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 12 May 2021
  • Here's why some people are grumpy about the live-action ''Snow White'' movie.
    — USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The grumpy old man has one Christmas Eve left to face his past and build a better future.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Is there any way to bring up better use of on-the-clock time without coming off as the grumpy tech nerd?
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The bad news, Washington should be grumpy coming to town.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • But who isn’t a little grumpy when waiting for your clothes to dry at the laundromat?
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But the grumpy dogs did noticeably better when a stranger demonstrated the way to get the object.
    — James Gorman, Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
  • Some strategists fear the film will not be given a proper shake by grumpy old men in the industry.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The youngest, and most stubborn, member of the group, Constance is rather grumpy and prone to making up unpleasant rhymes.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 8 Aug. 2021
  • In the movie, a group of fun-loving trolls who spend their days singing and dancing gets kidnapped by a race of giant and very grumpy ogres called Bergens.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Jane’s meatloaf looked grumpy and tasted grumpy, even after Theo microwaved a coat of cheese on top.
    — Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Or doing a Secret Santa with a bunch of grumpy pants people?
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 23 Sep. 2022
  • My daughter is not a morning person and can be grumpy when woken.
    — Simon Hill, Wired, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Why should the grumpy king make all the decisions when his wife is far more levelheaded?
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The film revolves around Reynolds, a mean and grumpy businessman who gets Scrooged by Will Ferrell but is still too jaded to care.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The tattoos come after Affleck’s grumpy appearance at the 2023 Grammy Awards, which sparked a lot of memes of the actor.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Brown said that people can be grumpier, more rigid, and worse problem solvers when they’re play-deprived.
    — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Brady, despite the grumpy veneer, has plenty of reasons to be happy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Some readers will be grumpy, and rightly, about the omission of Americans.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Even the grumpy Rosenthal admits that things have become better lately, at least in the purple states.
    — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • This made her more progressive members grumpy at times.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 July 2023
  • At idle, however, a grumpy 46 decibels from the inline-four echo throughout the cabin.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 16 Feb. 2023

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