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But for quite a while there, such efforts seemed almost entirely ineffectual and easily mockable: Scared, grumpy left-behinders yelling at the diverse metropolitan types of Obama-era America to get off their lawn.

From Salon

She also said it was "gorgeous" to see the bond growing between Elliott and his "grumpy".

From BBC

He seems grumpy, like he’s not entirely happy to be here.

A decade later, he was nominated for a Bafta for his role as the grumpy husband of a dying woman in A Song for Marion.

From BBC

"For me, he was a grumpy old dad who you had your run-ins with every now and then," he says, smiling.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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