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
It would have been easy to overdo Richard’s grouchiness, Rachel’s volatility or Sadie’s blithe, oversharing sense of entitlement, or to turn Charlie and Cynthia into cartoons of blundering dadness and high-flying helicopter maternalism.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2018
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
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
