grumpy
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It’s Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges, whose maddening play once clogged up the text chains of grumpy Knicks fans, but now feel like family.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
He was trained by colorful and often grumpy Mel Stute, who was, like Shoemaker, a fixture at Santa Anita.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026
“Trips to China have made me grumpy and given me a bad attitude toward American-market EVs,” wrote Kevin Williams at InsideEVs.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
"If you want to speak to one of them at three in the morning, you know, they won't be grumpy or tell you to stop texting them."
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
He had accidentally slept in a patch of poison ivy and was itchy and grumpy.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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