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

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