Thesaurus / grumpy
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So everyone’s almost bonding over the fact that it’s that last week and that everybody’s grumpy.
WE'RE IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF THE PANDEMIC. ANTARCTIC RESEARCHERS, MARS SIMULATION SCIENTISTS AND NAVY SUBMARINE OFFICERS HAVE ADVICE FOR HOW TO GET THROUGH ITTARA LAWFEBRUARY 26, 2021TIMEConsider this an intervention on the part of a grumpy longtime car journalist.
HOW TO MODIFY YOUR TACOMA THE RIGHT WAYWES SILERFEBRUARY 25, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEOnline, you can find reviews from grumpy customers who say the procedure doesn’t clean ovens that are really spattered.
HOW CAN I GET THE BROWN CRUD OFF MY OVEN’S GLASS DOOR?JEANNE HUBERFEBRUARY 1, 2021WASHINGTON POSTI become standoffish and grumpy when it’s time to pay the rent.
THE MONEY WE DIDN’T SPEND IN 2020VOX STAFFDECEMBER 31, 2020VOXThere are a lot of grumpy, would-be Michelangelos out there who feel that somehow this isn’t “real” design—and isn’t what they signed up for.
MICHELANGELO VS. MACGYVER: WHO WILL DESIGN THE OFFICES OF OUR POST-COVID FUTURE?CLAYCHANDLERSEPTEMBER 1, 2020FORTUNEEven the gruff, grumpy, unsociable rhinoceros amiably allowed him to stroke its head with his trunk.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNEIm a confirmed old bachelor, a grumpy, surly recluse wedded to my pipe, but for all that I have eyes in my head.
THE ROMANCE OF HIS LIFEMARY CHOLMONDELEYNever be grumpy, man, when I've got the most glorious bit of fun in the world to tell you, too.
FRANK FAIRLEGHFRANK E. SMEDLEYAnd that was the same as saying that there wasn't anybody any quicker—unless it was Grumpy Weasel himself.
THE TALE OF PONY TWINKLEHEELSARTHUR SCOTT BAILEYI think I love him a great deal better than my husband, who is getting stout, and grumpy,—what he calls "busy."
NORTH AND SOUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELLWORDS RELATED TO GRUMPY
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
- bad-tempered
- cheerless
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- cynical
- dismal
- dour
- dull
- fretful
- frowning
- gloomy
- glowering
- glum
- gruff
- grumpy
- heavy
- hostile
- ill-humored
- inert
- irritable
- malevolent
- malicious
- malign
- mean
- moody
- morose
- obstinate
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- perverse
- pessimistic
- petulant
- pouting
- pouty
- querulous
- saturnine
- silent
- somber
- sour
- sourpussed
- stubborn
- sulking
- sulky
- surly
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- ugly
- unsociable
- uptight
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