curmudgeon
Example Sentences
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Urie is nominated in the category alongside his co-star Harrison Ford, who plays Paul, a curmudgeon therapist with a soft spot who finds love again while navigating Parkinson’s disease.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2025
Larry is the lying, socially inept, passively offensive curmudgeon you wouldn’t be able to stand in real life.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024
Grant is also a self-proclaimed miserable curmudgeon, which he’ll say with a straight face right before saying something completely contradictory.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023
Christmas curmudgeon Walter is not on board, believing his son is a “certifiably insane” man living under the deranged delusion that he is an elf.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2023
Dad says his uncle was a charming curmudgeon, which I think means grumpy with some niceness thrown in.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
