as in crab
an irritable and complaining person
only a curmudgeon would object to the nursing home's holiday decorations
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Recent Examples of curmudgeon
This fuzzy green hermit has become synonymous with Christmas-hating curmudgeons and greedy holiday buzzkills worldwide since Dr. Seuss introduced him in his 1957 children's book of the same name.
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Mike Miller, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
But there’s one Kansas City salad that even a greens curmudgeon like me will eat: the spinach and goat cheese salad at Spin!
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
Notorious curmudgeon and Steely Dan co-founder Fagen, who at first didn’t respond to his overtures.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024
Mark, now long since passed, was a glorious curmudgeon.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
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Mike Miller, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
But there’s one Kansas City salad that even a greens curmudgeon like me will eat: the spinach and goat cheese salad at Spin!
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
Notorious curmudgeon and Steely Dan co-founder Fagen, who at first didn’t respond to his overtures.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024
Mark, now long since passed, was a glorious curmudgeon.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curmudgeon
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Start your meal with a basket of mini crab cakes, then pick an under-the-sea entrée ranging from jerked tuna tacos to a North Carolina shrimp burger to a seafood platter with your choice of shrimp, scallops, flounder, clam strips, catfish, chicken tenders, or crab cakes.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
18 Apr. 2025
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Add some final touches with markers such as fruit details, faces, or whatever your child desires. 15 of 35 Sweet Sea Creatures In this Easter egg design, kids can create their own turtles, crabs, octopuses—or any type of fish!—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
16 Apr. 2025
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The total range is 424 bears at the low end of the estimate and 1,713 at the high end.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
16 Apr. 2025
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In the Yellowstone region, the bear’s numbers have now risen to more than 700, surpassing recovery goals set by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
16 Apr. 2025
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For example, over half of all bicycle crank sets, derailleurs and brake parts came from Taiwan.—
Jay L. Zagorsky,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2025
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Using those rules, the AI cranks through sentences and takes them apart, piece by piece.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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How this small but annoying quirk came to be — and how to fix it There might be several reasons why bar culture has tipped in a way that makes a bartender feel like an old grump yelling at children to get off his lawn.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
7 Feb. 2025
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Timothée Chalamet sings Dylan, and grumps just like him too in the new official trailer for James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
8 Oct. 2024
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“Curmudgeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curmudgeon. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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