grouch

In Giamatti’s hands, the dialogue of an erudite grouch sings.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

Discovery, is run by numbers grouch David Zaslav, whose primary interest in journalism seems to be his desire to stop its practitioners from saying mean things about him.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2023

Certainly, an uncharismatic grouch who pronounces his own name differently every other day is highly unlikely to do it.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2023

Jackie Sanders portrays the perfect manipulator and grouch that is Marika.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022

P.S. please tel prof Nemur not to be such a grouch when pepul laff at him and he woud have more frends.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

I guess the grouches can let a meh day in the team combined or an 11th place in the giant slalom spoil their vibe, but Mikaela Shiffrin is restored as an Olympic champion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

Though he became most celebrated for his endearing grouches, Alan Arkin was a versatile performer, equally capable of drama or comedy, with an idiosyncratic knack for combining the two.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023

Whether it’s her notation of Archie’s blokish colloquialisms, Clara’s Anglo-Jamaican patois, the banter of two ancient Jamaican grouches or of second-generation Bengali teenagers, the mongrel texture of metropolitan life rises vividly from the page.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

Indeed, many NFL coaches are cantankerous, routine-obsessed grouches who deprive themselves of everything from sleep to joy.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2019

One of the grouches had recently visited the old friend, and, naturally, the other grouch wanted news of the Benedict.

From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by C. E. (Clara Elizabeth) Fanning

We bellyached and we grouched, but really, we did nothing.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2024

It’s even possible that I grouched in the lobby afterward about poets and their ambiguities.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2017

“This isn’t fun,” the female crewmember grouched to her male mate.

From Washington Post

Higgins, 51, grouched cheerfully about such matters over an easeful lunch in what must no longer be called the men's bar at Locke-Ober, hard by the Boston Common.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of us was from the U. S., an' we grouched at his pokin' in.

From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Beyond all the knowledge and talent, beyond the frequent smiles and occasional grouching, David was a guy who really cared.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

Thereafter, he spent a lot of time grouching about how little time he was being allotted.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2015

Indeed, the gulf between the detective's fearsome reputation and the bear-like grouching that colours his relationship with Kirov is a pleasure to rank alongside the richly detailed universe Watkins has fashioned for them both.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2013

Sometimes you need a sane summer vacation to see how habitual our sports grouching has become.

From Washington Post

"Oh, the girls are grouching a little because they helped earn all this, and are to be left out of it," explained Robert in a low voice.

From A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter