Thesaurus / grouchy
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On The Mary Tyler Moore Show and, later, Lou Grant, his character formed the prototype for future pop-culture depictions of the grouchy boss with a heart of gold.
A TRIBUTE TO LOU GRANT, THE ULTIMATE BOSSHEATHER LANDYSEPTEMBER 1, 2021QUARTZI find Perelman irresistibly funny in his grouchy misanthropic way.
S.J. PERELMAN WAS A MASTER OF COMEDY. NEARLY A CENTURY LATER, HIS WORK STILL DELIVERS LAUGHS.DONALD LIEBENSONAUGUST 25, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThis post admirably suited Grouchy, who was a horseman by nature and a cavalry soldier by instinct.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONAt Moskowa his cuirassiers, sabre in hand, drove the Russians out of the great redoubt, but Grouchy himself was seriously wounded.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONUnfortunately, the Duke refused the opportunity to escape which was offered him, and Grouchy had to make him a prisoner.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONHe had an ingrowing toe nail, which sometimes made him grouchy and sour, so he was dubbed Pickles.
BUMPER, THE WHITE RABBITGEORGE ETHELBERT WALSHBefore this, Marshal Grouchy had likewise expired in his eighty-first year.
A HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, YEAR BY YEAREDWIN EMERSONWe drank the coffee brought to us before dawn, in grouchy, sleepy, monosyllabic silence.
TRAMPING ON LIFEHARRY KEMPIn this case his Lordship had been grouchy, and everybody's pleasure had been spoiled.
THE BOOK OF LIFE: VOL. I MIND AND BODY; VOL. II LOVE AND SOCIETYUPTON SINCLAIRNapoleon made a miscalculation, as most critics think, in giving Grouchy so large a force.
BATTLES OF ENGLISH HISTORYH. B. (HEREFORD BROOKE) GEORGEWORDS RELATED TO GROUCHY
- bad-tempered
- bundle of nerves
- cantankerous
- captious
- choleric
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- delicate
- dicey
- grouchy
- grumpy
- hazardous
- hypersensitive
- irascible
- irritable
- jumpy
- mean
- ornery
- oversensitive
- peevish
- perturbable
- pettish
- petulant
- precarious
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- risky
- sensitive
- splenetic
- surly
- temperamental
- testy
- thin-skinned
- ticklish
- tricky
- unpredictable
- unsafe
- uptight
- volatile
- wired up
- wound-up
- acrimonious
- against
- alien
- aloof
- antagonistic
- antisocial
- censorious
- chilly
- cold
- combative
- competitive
- conflicting
- contrary
- disaffected
- disagreeable
- distant
- estranged
- grouchy
- grudging
- gruff
- hateful
- ill-disposed
- inauspicious
- inhospitable
- inimical
- malicious
- malignant
- misanthropic
- not on speaking terms
- opposed
- opposite
- quarrelsome
- sour
- spiteful
- surly
- uncharitable
- uncongenial
- unfavorable
- unneighborly
- unpropitious
- unsociable
- vengeful
- warlike
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