grumbler
Example Sentences
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"One day in the dugout I asked him –- why are you always such a grumbler? And he told me about the tragedy with his family. From that time, we grew very close."
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
But Wilkinson was equally persuasive as a working-class grumbler, which is what made him such a terrific secret weapon in the hit 1997 comedy “The Full Monty.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2023
Resolve one person's grumbles, and potentially create another grumbler.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2023
She is a moaner and a grumbler and a snappy comeback queen, but she is also a devoted daughter, a loving friend, an adoring wife.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2015
The grumbler can be pacified by a word or chastened by a rebuke; but a man burning under a sense of real injustice and wrong will never be efficient again until his injuries are redressed.
From The Lighter Side of School Life by Ian Hay
