Example Sentences

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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

Kwan and Scheinert aren’t afraid to milk her for screwball laughs, poking fun at her anxiety, her grumpiness and her creative bungling of the English language.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2022

But we're only beginning to learn what makes Roy tick, and Goldstein hams up his grumpiness in wonderful ways.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2021

Not surprisingly, the Duchess’s grumpiness became legendary, as Voltaire has so ably chronicled.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman