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as in irritable
easily irritated or annoyed
a grumpy neighbor whose yard we had long ago learned not to trespass
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as in restless
given to complaining a lot
the baby's sure to be grumpy if she doesn't get her afternoon nap
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Recent Examples of grumpy
Americans have been grumpy about the economy for the better part of three years because prices have gone up, and — fairly or unfairly — many consumers have blamed the White House.
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Allison Morrow, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
But with every diachronic update comes a new disruptor, and 5.0 offers up its own grumpy hero.
Enter charming Nerd Face (Tuânminh Albert Ðo).
—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
But The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning mostly just uses its answering of any lingering questions (how did the grumpy old guy lose his legs?
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
Even missing just a few hours of sleep can turn the most stable person into a grumpy, unproductive mess the next day.
—Valentina Bottoni, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2024
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Allison Morrow, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
But with every diachronic update comes a new disruptor, and 5.0 offers up its own grumpy hero.
Enter charming Nerd Face (Tuânminh Albert Ðo).
—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
But The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning mostly just uses its answering of any lingering questions (how did the grumpy old guy lose his legs?
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
Even missing just a few hours of sleep can turn the most stable person into a grumpy, unproductive mess the next day.
—Valentina Bottoni, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grumpy
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People with anxiety may also feel irritable, tense, or restless, and may have a sense of impending danger, panic, or doom.Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Max was admitted to the hospital after experiencing severe pain in July and was diagnosed with transient synovitis, a condition also referred to as irritable hip.Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2024
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Popular on Variety The result is a film that mirrors the restless spirit of its subjects while breaking all of the rules of traditional documentary filmmaking.William Earl, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
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Kamala’s Glock and Camo hats on their own just weren’t enough to sway restless voters in the middle.Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024
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Why was everyone grouchy after drinking the apple cider?Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024
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The movie follows a kid and his friend who dig into the mysteries of a haunted house across the street after the grouchy old man who lived there dies in his yard.Dustin Nelson, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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Trying to Kill Each Other' And Walken is marvelous — querulous, petty, cruel — as the Emperor.Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
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Instead, Gerwig and Baumbach promote querulous sloganeering.Armond White, National Review, 19 July 2023
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What Kate will not thank him for is being a big crabby baby about her relationship with Dennison.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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There were fish living in the ice and thousands of mating pairs of these giant crustaceans dropping out of crevices on top of us, like giant crabby spiders.Jill Heinerth, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
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There’s really nothing to be nervous about, just the optics of everything.Peter A. Berry, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2024
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The tech industry has been nervous about what Trump, who now has his own social network in the form of Truth Social, might do about Section 230 the second time around.David Meyer, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2024
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And there was Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor getting cranky during oral arguments about the lack of uniform standards for ballots and how they are handled.Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
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Its service style is antithetical to cranky Canter’s.Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
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The board had grown dissatisfied with the direction Wojcicki was taking the company.Bruce Gil, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
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These subtle symbolic and rhetorical shifts suggest that North Korea is dissatisfied with China.Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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“Grumpy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grumpy. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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