crotchety
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“He was playing a character that was like a very crotchety old man who hated everything,” Grossman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
This is a place where everyone knows everyone else and might find stuck-in-their-ways folks like Harry to be charming or crotchety.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2025
She excelled on stage and screen in Alan Bennett’s “The Lady in the Van,” playing a crotchety squatter with an imperious sense of entitlement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
The show, “Extremely Inappropriate!,” features a foul-talking, crotchety physical education teacher and widowed father who boards a public bus in 1986 Japan and finds himself whisked to 2024.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
Instead, there was the blithe unselfconciousness of some crotchety old Veteran of Foreign Wars—married for years, father of multitudes—who finds the topic infinitely repugnant and amusing.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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