How to Use crotchety in a Sentence

crotchety

adjective

• None of the students dared to talk back to the crotchety old teacher.
• I get crotchety after a long day at work.
• Meanwhile, there was a crotchety old man in the same building who was fed up with the noise that the hotel was causing.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 19 June 2017
• Of the four or six people two of them should be crotchety accountants who wear green eyeshades and binders on their sleeves.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2017
• Though the group is immersed in good works, its name summons visions of crotchety vets nursing beers in linoleum-floored posts.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
• Beal — by then a crotchety town character — would be known to loudly declare, often while shirtless.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2019
• The unflappable Luke Skywalker, formerly a shimmering, golden Jedi, has become an aged, crotchety beard-o who drinks green sludge from the teat of a space aardvark.
  — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 4 May 2018
• The island is home to a bunch of adorable chubby birds known as porgs, as well as creaky nunlike characters who maintain, with crotchety strictness, the cavelike structures that hold all those ancient Jedi secrets.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Dec. 2017
• Maisie hears about a gold rush just outside a town, and decides to go into business with ta family of poor prospectors and a crotchety ranch owner who may be unknowingly sitting on a valuable vein of gold.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
• Bernie Sanders seemed not as interesting as last cycle, more crotchety and irritable.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• Perhaps no one should have expected anything less from the 81-year-old senator, who can be crotchety and cantankerous but is also seen by many, both in and out of politics, as an American hero, flaws and all.
  — CBS News, 12 May 2018
• In a household where the only females are of the canine persuasion, Rachel soon becomes de facto hostess, charming even the crotchety old servant Seecombe (a scene-stealing Tim Barlow), who had dreaded her arrival.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
• This may be precisely the way crafty, crotchety Anne Lamott would operate, especially in these divisive times.
  — Ann Bauer, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2017
• Warren, these Democrats believe, was a more appealing outsider candidate than the perennially crotchety Bernie Sanders.
  — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 2 June 2017
• The story follows standard conventions: The crotchety vets are reluctant to share, yet the youngster persists and discovers a story both heartbreaking and inspiring.
  — Tayari Jones, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2017
• But Harrison's ticket to the White House was an anti-Harrison editorial that derided him as a crotchety old soldier drinking hard cider in a log cabin.
  — CBS News, 12 June 2012
• On this same day 40 years ago, a crotchety correspondent named Harry Reasoner, the anchorman at my network, ended our evening newscast with a commentary about the national pastime.
  — Greg Dobbs, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2017
• But remember, again, that baseball exists for fun, and twisting yourself into crotchety knots over anything as trifling as baseball is a pointless exercise sure to tarnish the enjoyment of something simple and silly and joyful and pure.
  — Ted Berg, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2017
• Jim Carrey plays the infamously crotchety titular creature with the polar opposite of holiday cheer.
  — Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2017

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