Thesaurus / crotchety
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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.
BROOKE SHIELDS IS JUST GETTING STARTEDASHLEY SPENCERNOVEMBER 5, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIn “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.
‘SITE FIDELITY’ EXPLORES WHY WE FIGHT FOR THE PLACES WE LOVESMURGUIAJULY 16, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEThese men are crotchety, opinioned creatures of habit, great characters in their own right, though their dogs steal the show, as dogs so often do.
THE BEST MOVIES OF 2021 SO FARSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKMAY 25, 2021TIMEI took that jelly to a crotchety old patient of mine who is boarding, and reviles all the jelly his nurse buys for him.
THOSE DALE GIRLSFRANK WESTON CARRUTHTaking up a residence in the tangled shrubbery or thickety undergrowth, it immediately begins to scold like a crotchety old wren.
BIRD NEIGHBORSNELTJE BLANCHANNeither do they dote madly on their crotchety uncles in the slippers and dressing-gowns of 78.
THE INCENDIARYW. A. (WILLIAM AUGUSTINE) LEAHYThe most crotchety member of the intellectual community might find his own hobby in those stables.
THE CAXTONS, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTONThe proportion of crotchety agitators among the population of foreign birth we believe to be actually less than among the natives.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, VOLUME 20. DECEMBER, 1877.VARIOUSWhen kept as pets they become very tame, though some are crotchety tempered, and bite severely.
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAMMALIA OF INDIA AND CEYLONROBERT A. STERNDALESusanna, plain and a little crotchety, who had never had a sweetheart to coax the thin lips into smiles.
THE LOVE OF ULRICH NEBENDAHLJEROME K. JEROMEWORDS RELATED TO CROTCHETY
- annoyed
- cantankerous
- captious
- caviling
- choleric
- churlish
- crabby
- cranky
- crotchety
- crusty
- disagreeable
- faultfinding
- fractious
- fretful
- grouchy
- grumpy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impatient
- irascible
- irritable
- out of humor
- peeved
- peevish
- pettish
- petulant
- put out
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- short
- snappy
- splenetic
- sullen
- surly
- testy
- tetchy
- touchy
- vexed
- waspish
- angered
- annoyed
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- curt
- disgruntled
- exasperated
- fractious
- grumpy
- huffish
- hurt
- insulted
- irked
- irritable
- miffed
- moody
- moping
- nettled
- offended
- peeved
- peevish
- pettish
- petulant
- piqued
- provoked
- put out
- querulous
- resentful
- riled
- short
- snappish
- snappy
- stewed
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- testy
- touchy
- vexed
- waspish
- annoyed
- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- contentious
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- exasperated
- fiery
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- prickly
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- resentful
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- surly
- tense
- testy
- touchy
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- misanthropic
- morose
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- snappy
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
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