grouch

In Giamatti’s hands, the dialogue of an erudite grouch sings.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

Discovery, is run by numbers grouch David Zaslav, whose primary interest in journalism seems to be his desire to stop its practitioners from saying mean things about him.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2023

Certainly, an uncharismatic grouch who pronounces his own name differently every other day is highly unlikely to do it.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2023

The good-natured grouch loved to answer his phone calls from the media with: “Why are bothering me?”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2021

Maybe it makes me a total grouch, but I don’t need another best friend.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

I guess the grouches can let a meh day in the team combined or an 11th place in the giant slalom spoil their vibe, but Mikaela Shiffrin is restored as an Olympic champion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

Though he became most celebrated for his endearing grouches, Alan Arkin was a versatile performer, equally capable of drama or comedy, with an idiosyncratic knack for combining the two.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023

Whether it’s her notation of Archie’s blokish colloquialisms, Clara’s Anglo-Jamaican patois, the banter of two ancient Jamaican grouches or of second-generation Bengali teenagers, the mongrel texture of metropolitan life rises vividly from the page.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

Indeed, many NFL coaches are cantankerous, routine-obsessed grouches who deprive themselves of everything from sleep to joy.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2019

We was to apply soothin' acts and financial balm to all the old grouches that Pyramid had left behind him, you remember, on a commission basis.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Sewell Ford

We bellyached and we grouched, but really, we did nothing.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2024

It’s even possible that I grouched in the lobby afterward about poets and their ambiguities.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2017

“This isn’t fun,” the female crewmember grouched to her male mate.

From Washington Post

Though Michelangelo grouched about his immense Sistine task, there is no question of his mastery of pure fresco, which he had learned in Florence in 1488 from his master Ghirlandaio.

From Time Magazine Archive

They're grouched because they got to dance together.

From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London

Beyond all the knowledge and talent, beyond the frequent smiles and occasional grouching, David was a guy who really cared.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

Thereafter, he spent a lot of time grouching about how little time he was being allotted.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2015

Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Call it grumbling, griping, grizzling, grouching – take your pick.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012

Sometimes you need a sane summer vacation to see how habitual our sports grouching has become.

From Washington Post

I was sitting on our front steps grouching about the heat when the messenger brushed by me with the telegram in his hand.

From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair