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adj.irritable, often due to old age

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In it, Shields plays a celebrated author who travels to Europe to purchase a castle and ends up meeting a romantic lead in the form of a crotchety Scotsman, played by “The Princess Bride” star Cary Elwes.

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In “Flood Stories,” the site of return is a cramped cabin that a woman named Lottie shares with her somewhat crotchety mother, who’s always grousing that she’s too flighty or ungrateful.

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These men are crotchety, opinioned creatures of habit, great characters in their own right, though their dogs steal the show, as dogs so often do.

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I took that jelly to a crotchety old patient of mine who is boarding, and reviles all the jelly his nurse buys for him.

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Taking up a residence in the tangled shrubbery or thickety undergrowth, it immediately begins to scold like a crotchety old wren.

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Neither do they dote madly on their crotchety uncles in the slippers and dressing-gowns of 78.

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The most crotchety member of the intellectual community might find his own hobby in those stables.

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The proportion of crotchety agitators among the population of foreign birth we believe to be actually less than among the natives.

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When kept as pets they become very tame, though some are crotchety tempered, and bite severely.

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Susanna, plain and a little crotchety, who had never had a sweetheart to coax the thin lips into smiles.

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