grouchiness

Example Sentences

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The worry is that beyond the headaches and the grouchiness, the outpouring of joy will worsen rising coronavirus infection rates, particularly among younger men, many of whom have yet to receive a vaccine against COVID-19.

From Fox News • Jul. 8, 2021

Her default grouchiness makes Rob something of a outlier in the social media era, where cheerfulness and positivity grab a smoothie together after yoga class.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2020

Ruscha, for his part, has responded to the emergence of an increasingly public and more crowded Los Angeles with more than a little grouchiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2016

What Mr. Weitz and Ms. Tomlin understand about the character, and about many other feminists of her generation, is that her grouchiness and her compassion issue from the same source.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2015

She’d been in a mood for weeks, and now my new utensil organization system had pushed her grouchiness into a full-out fluster.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry