How To Use Crotchety In A Sentence
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There are three major protagonists (played by Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, and, a revelation, Eliza Bennett), two minor (another promising youngster, Rafi Gavron, and the incomparable Helen Mirren clearly having the time of her life), and two tertiary (Jim Broadbent in crazed crotchety mode and Sienna Guillory doing fantastic physically expressive work).
Inkheart
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It's hard to stay crotchety about Christmas when my flatmates are all spirited.
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He captures all the action and introduces us to an eccentric gallery of characters that includes: Dick Hathaway, the crotchety legend who once caught a bluefish from a helicopter; Janet Messineo, a recovering alcoholic who says that striped bass saved her life; and Lev Wlodyka, a cagey local whose next fish will spark a storm of controversy and throw the tournament into turmoil.
The Big One by David Kinney: Book summary
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Lord Furnival is getting a little crotchety over my dilatory ways.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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Everyone would be assigned a familial role: from Old Man Jerry Buss, the wise and sometimes crotchety grandfather, to consigliere Phil Jackson, the trusted family counselor.
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Suffice it to say, though, it is Arthur (with crotchety old Grandsanta's help) who finally saves the day when elder brother Steve's high-tech logistics system overlooks one little girl's stocking.
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It's hardly surprising that this bold, or perhaps crotchety, proposal was instantly controversial.
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Instead, I felt sort of tense, crotchety and out of control most of the day.
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Your brothers provide quite well for all of us, and I need your smile here. But then, no-one listens to a crotchety old lady in a wheelchair.
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He was crotchety and cantankerous, but he was always a familiar face to see on the scene.
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I find myself despairing and crotchety about aspects of modern life.
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The truth of the matter is, we just live by an increasingly crotchety woman who hates progress.
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It was hard work, I was getting crotchety, and tonight the blisters on my calves are as big as gobstoppers.
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Call me a crotchety curmudgeon, but I started on this book with two mental blocks.
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Papa has always been a crotchety, grouchy, grumpy yet extremely lovable old coot.
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It's hardly surprising that this bold, or perhaps crotchety, proposal was instantly controversial.
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Crotchety spinsters, ladies 'companions, put a cheerful face upon it, endure the humors of your so-called benefactress, carry her lapdogs for her; you have an English poodle for your rival, and you must seek to understand the moods of your patroness, and amuse her, and -- keep silence about yourselves.
The Magic Skin
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I was raised by some pretty crotchety people who feel that moral responsibility starts with the individual first, society after.
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The trait is so naturelike and Dickens-like, no American ” no living soul but a peppery, crotchety, good-hearted, mellow old John Bull ” could have done such a thing.
Authors and Friends
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I have just invented a portmanteau word - Crumpety - Crotchety and Grumpy.
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You're a world away from traffic jams, bleeping mobile phones and your crotchety boss.
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Well, as I am getting older, I find that I'm getting - I don't know - more crotchety?
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Children will have to feel they can enjoy the activities, she says - and it would help if they could be given a snack, too, so they weren't too hungry and crotchety by the time their parents came to pick them up.
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Crotchety spinsters, ladies’ companions, put a cheerful face upon it, endure the humors of your so-called benefactress, carry her lapdogs for her; you have an English poodle for your rival, and you must seek to understand the moods of your patroness, and amuse her, and — keep silence about yourselves.
The Magic Skin
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Finally, there was a pair of crotchety knights, Sir William Fawnt and the popish recusant Sir Henry Shirley, who sought to bring down Huntingdon by levying false charges of fraud against him.
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I was feeling miserable and crotchety and on the point of collapse.
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In his early 40s, he was prematurely crotchety.
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Most recently, Boyle was known as the crotchety father on the television comedy series Everybody loves Raymond.
Archive 2006-12-01
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But the actor, best known as crotchety one-legged pensioner Winston from Still Game, is delighted to have come through the eventful season with what he believes is a fantastic second series of his hit sitcom.
The Daily Record - Home
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Lord Furnival is getting a little crotchety over my dilatory ways.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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Now, at almost 60, she has grown into a crotchety, cantankerous old woman who, nonetheless, has a deeply sensitive underside and a great affection for the children she minds.
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Amy has a lurcher, who I've looked after on occasion, and she takes my crotchety terrier.
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The crotchety and the crooked have their vulnerabilities and kindnesses, and no-one is wholly good or bad.
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The three women are, respectively, crotchety old lady, hothead cynic, and frustrated, overachieving go-between.
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If my feet are comfortable, then I don't get crotchety and start moaning.
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The Palin pick already, as Noemie Emery wrote, “Wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.”
The Palin Gamble - Swampland - TIME.com
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Now, I'm supposed to be pithy in this column, full of cute and snide comments about my Midwestern family, how they don't get it, how they're getting old and crotchety.
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His trademark cold, monotone delivery and crotchety attitude has often been imitated but never matched.
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The crotchety and the crooked have their vulnerabilities and kindnesses, and no-one is wholly good or bad.
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At the risk of sounding crotchety, I must point out at least one - the most common and persistent one - of these mistakes of loose thinking.
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His mind was already awhirl with ways to bypass the pacifistic Thrall and the crotchety old Cairne and get the Horde what it needed.
The Shattering
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The trait is so naturelike and Dickens-like, no American -- no living soul but a peppery, crotchety, good-hearted, mellow old John Bull -- could have done such a thing.
Authors and Friends
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Yeah, the clothes alone would put the crotch in crotchety.
Slimbo's Jazz Fest Report
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York is bulging at the walls with Scrooges, Grinches, crotchety crosspatches and other assorted bah humbuggers.
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Augustine had an aura like lop-eared rabbits and fluffy baby chicks that demanded even the most crotchety of old men stand up and take notice.
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It's what I call a crotchety conscience -- always in the way of your doing anything like anybody else.
Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I
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Lord Furnival is getting a little crotchety over my dilatory ways.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
