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
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
Otis Drexell, crotchety fifth-grade teacher and scam artist, has only two classroom rules: “Never shout when the teacher has a hangover,” and “All loose change belongs to the teacher.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024
We of the more crotchety generations, however, suffered through the plaything’s shrill, maniacal giggles for a sustained period – months, years maybe.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
Domingo Montoya was funny-looking and crotchety and impatient and absent-minded and never smiled.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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