curmudgeon
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Two days later, she told POLITICO’s Irie Sentner that it was her “favorite holiday” while admitting, “I’m kind of a curmudgeon when it comes to holidays in general.”
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
Adams was a balding curmudgeon from Massachusetts—brainy, argumentative and physically ill-favored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Duvall drew on his inner curmudgeon throughout his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
Without their love story, we might never have seen Bill as anything other than a belligerent survivalist and eternal curmudgeon Joel knew him to be.
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
Dad says his uncle was a charming curmudgeon, which I think means grumpy with some niceness thrown in.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
Tilda Swinton — “The Room Next Door” “Movies often put misanthropes on center stage, but usually the sharp edges of these curmudgeons are sanded down. Not so with Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
Some of the greatest players Scotland has ever produced also happened to be world class curmudgeons.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2023
"Even the curmudgeons are excited about it," said Calgary Chamber of Commerce CEO Deborah Yedlin.
From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2022
“All of my favorite philosophers were curmudgeons, so they wouldn’t touch TikTok with a 10-foot pole,” Ellie Anderson, a philosophy professor at Pomona College, said in an email.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2022
“Show attendance will continue declining, and, with it, my profit margins. On top of that, the Kuhani and his committee of curmudgeons have denied my request for financial aid...”
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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