Example sentences for: grumpy

How can you use “grumpy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "[S]ince it comes from Vonnegut, America's favorite grumpy old man, you've got to love him" (Thomas Disch, the Washington Post ).

  • Resentment is narrated, like Another City , by a grumpy writer who lives at the Chateau Marmont hotel; at the same time, Dunne himself appears as a character, as a columnist-novelist named Fawbus Kennedy who is variously called "the kind of nothing this culture has been moving toward for decades," a "third-rate middlebrow Depends ad," and a "pompous mediocrity of a type unprecedented and decidedly unwelcome in this kind of grave proceeding."

  • I guess the lesson that is to be learned from the Times article you mention on Page A12 is that if you're going to get involved negotiating with Nazi-era slaves, you're just going to have to expect them to be a little grumpy and that is all there is to it.

  • Maybe Lind is grumpy because he wouldn't look quite so hot in a loincloth by conventional standards of beauty.

  • In Newsweek , the usually grumpy Harold Bloom called it "charming"; Clemson University's James Andreas enthused, "Shakespeare was a pop phenomenon in his own age.


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