How to Use grouch in a Sentence

grouch

noun

• Then go back to your cold, dark hole and grouch about it, Mr. Grinch.
  — Adrienne So, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2007
• But his grouch-like approach may just win her heart come Christmas.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 22 Oct. 2022
• Why be such a grouch when people are just being friendly?
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2017
• Scrooge, of course, starts the story as a miserly grouch, and ends it charitably.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
• Her banter sings, particularly in the hands of a lovable grouch like Graham.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 June 2020
• Her late husband—friend, adviser, sailor, grouch, almost an orphan, and perhaps a god—would surely wish for no less.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2021
• Legendary animator Chuck Jones directed the story about a green-skinned grouch who sets out to spoil Christmas for the citizens of Whoville.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2021
• Guy Pearce plays Ebenezer Scrooge, the eternally spiteful and selfish grouch whose misdeeds against his workers and even their families are no longer inferred.
  — Hunter Ingram, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2019
• Ed was our real life Carl Fredricksen: a veneer of grouch over an incredibly loving and kind human being.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2021
• The original version of the family-friendly tale stars horror legend Boris Karloff, who both narrates and voices the memorable green grouch.
  — Matt Juul, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
• Only the most stubborn retro-grouch would dispute the fact that, overall, cycling is constantly improving in that department.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 17 Apr. 2018
• Clint then notices how the miserly grouch shuts down conversations with a stern greeting that shocks onlookers for its vulgarity.
  — Ashley Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• Jackie Sanders portrays the perfect manipulator and grouch that is Marika.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
• So your method of writing something personal is fine — provided your e-cards are not the animated sort that take up time and space on the computer, annoying grouches like Miss Manners.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
• Eagle River Nature Center staff have worked hard to create hundreds of ice luminarias as well, making this evening party something to brighten up even the grinchiest grouch.
  — Erin Kirkland, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2017
• Zellweger plays her as a chimney-smoking grouch, too damaged to fully trust anyone, but emotionally unable to survive daily life without the people around her.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2019
• Yep, everyone's favorite green grouch is apparently inspiring a lot of beauty looks, and TBH, some of them are definitely worth copying.
  — De Elizabeth, Allure, 18 Dec. 2017
• Previously known as a visionary coach in possession of more championship rings than fingers, Jackson spent his return to Gotham reimagining himself as an aging grouch who waxed wistful for a more artful and earthbound game.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 28 June 2017

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024