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

“Ed was a real-life Carl Fredricksen: a thick veneer of grouch covering a loving, tender heart. He was full of life and strong opinions, and happy to share both with anyone,” Docter said.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2021

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

"And I'll bet the folks who wrote that book are a pair of grouches who have forgotten what a square meal tastes like!"

From How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict

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

"But he is grouched for fair, ain't he!"

From Torchy, Private Sec. by F. Foster Lincoln

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

Indeed, the gulf between the detective's fearsome reputation and the bear-like grouching that colours his relationship with Kirov is a pleasure to rank alongside the richly detailed universe Watkins has fashioned for them both.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2013

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

From Washington Post

He's a free-lunch hitter; I remember one of the barkeeps grouching about him.

From Wilt Thou Torchy by Sewell Ford