grumpy
adjective
surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
grumpiness
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a word derived from
grumpy.
Example Sentences
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The actors are terrific enough to complicate the equation: Wright secured a long-overdue Oscar nomination for his superbly restrained work as Monk, rivaling even Giamatti in his ability to locate new shades of professorial grumpiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
It's also the source of Frasier’s winning vulnerability, distilled by Grammer into a cocktail of haughty sangfroid, grumpiness and keen loneliness.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2023
In fact, half of their grumpiness is a personality trait, and half would be within the person’s variability from day to day.”
From Scientific American ● Apr. 5, 2023
If you're part of the "insomniac army", you may be reading this through a haze of fatigue, mental fogginess or - hopefully not - grumpiness.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2023
Not surprisingly, the Duchess’s grumpiness became legendary, as Voltaire has so ably chronicled.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
