grouch
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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
Jackie Sanders portrays the perfect manipulator and grouch that is Marika.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022
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
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
Some portrait sitters come across as stiffs or grouches.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2020
I drew from my strong-box one thousand grouches, and went to the aga of the Janissaries.
From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Julia Pardoe
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
Growled and kicked and grouched at the cold, the long nights, the hardships, the aches and pains and everything else.
From Smoke Bellew 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
Well, they would never succeed; they could go on forever with their grouching, but the mass of the workers in America had a normal attitude toward the big man, who could do things.
From 100%: the Story of a Patriot by Upton Sinclair
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