grouch
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But now that he’s gone, the hoodie-wearing coach even poked fun at his reputation as a grouch.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
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
Life is that half minute in the morning before your cat remembers she’s kind of a grouch, when she pours out her love and doesn’t give a flying newton who sees it.
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
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
Yogi Berra had a good line for the grouches and snobs who complained about such things in New York City, of all places: “It’s too crowded, nobody goes there anymore.”
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2021
Len," she said with a touch of petulance in her voice, "you get into grouches and spur your imagination to all sorts of absurdities.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
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
Higgins, 51, grouched cheerfully about such matters over an easeful lunch in what must no longer be called the men's bar at Locke-Ober, hard by the Boston Common.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of us was from the U. S., an' we grouched at his pokin' in.
From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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
"Oh, the girls are grouching a little because they helped earn all this, and are to be left out of it," explained Robert in a low voice.
From A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter
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