curmudgeon

How To Use curmudgeon In A Sentence

• This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
• If you leave the theater without a smile on your face, then you're really a curmudgeon .
• And the loveable curmudgeon is responsible for most of literature's best quotations, maxims and aphorisms.
• I was grading for a real curmudgeon, the grump who wound up being my thesis advisor.
• Paul:How about to my editor, the old curmudgeon? Excuse me. He took me off the Anaconda story. I'm a reporter at The Bee.
• At some moments the soloist's rubato might have seemed overly attenuated, but it would be curmudgeonly to complain, particularly in the light of his ravishingly beautiful treatment of sequential passages.
• There have been too many times when I've been relieved to finally be able to post a halfway-positive review after a string of scathingly negative ones, because I was starting to worry I was coming off as some kind of buzzkill curmudgeon. Archive 2009-03-08
• The old curmudgeon was talking about the smothering effects of parental duty on creative lives.
• _ Before George, there is not enough to rig out a mournival of whores: They'll think me grown a mere curmudgeon. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
• And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.