grouch

But now that he’s gone, the hoodie-wearing coach even poked fun at his reputation as a grouch.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

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

“He’s a real grouch, for sure,” she goes on.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe

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

Let us tune ourselves with the Infinite; let a golden thread run through all our days; no frowns, no grouches, no scolding—no, no!

From Copper Streak Trail by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

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

Then he got red in the face, glared at Dodo, and grouched out a "beg pardon!"

From You Can Search Me by McHugh, Hugh

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

Tim Mahoney was there, grouching round about having to light up the hall next night for the B'nai B'rith; and I told him to take it for himself.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon