curmudgeon
Example Sentences
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The effect, Hackford says, was transformative: “Suddenly, he was the dour, dogged, disheveled curmudgeon I’d envisioned.”
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2025
Larry is the lying, socially inept, passively offensive curmudgeon you wouldn’t be able to stand in real life.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024
It’s a perfect role for curmudgeon specialist Paul Giamatti, if not quite the pure pleasure of a loser he previously played for director Alexander Payne in “Sideways.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024
In his second film with Payne, following “Sideways,” he plays a curmudgeon instructor at a 1970s boarding school tasked with staying over Christmas break with a handful of students.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2023
Dad says his uncle was a charming curmudgeon, which I think means grumpy with some niceness thrown in.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
