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H. L. Mencken, in one of his more crotchety moods, said this: The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.
I am not some crotchety old fool.
In the mid-19th century, however, I should have replied, Words, words and their provisional meanings, with reference to the opposite and, at times, equally crotchety definitions of the same entries, reading Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) on the stage.
But others find the film "beautifully crafted, intricately designed" (Eric Harrison, the Los Angeles Times ) and credit Samuel L. Jackson's outstanding performance as a crotchety and morally ambiguous violin appraiser.
In Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," a crotchety and self-centered grandmother, held at gunpoint by an escaped convict in rural Georgia, becomes suddenly sensitive.