grumbler
Example Sentences
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"One day in the dugout I asked him –- why are you always such a grumbler? And he told me about the tragedy with his family. From that time, we grew very close."
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
But Wilkinson was equally persuasive as a working-class grumbler, which is what made him such a terrific secret weapon in the hit 1997 comedy “The Full Monty.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2023
Resolve one person's grumbles, and potentially create another grumbler.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2023
Logan is both a world-class grumbler with a crotchety disdain for what used to be called multiculturalism and a stiletto-sharp stylist with appealing allergies to cant and special pleading.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2018
Even that born grumbler, George, admitted the sun did shine "fairly well," and that coffee, bacon and flapjacks with syrup, all served lavishly as regarded quantity, made life worth living again.
From Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad or, Camping at Raccoon Lodge by Alan Douglas
