grouch

How To Use grouch In A Sentence

• “You come to make a sales pitch?” he asked grouchily. Fatal Circle
• Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. Groucho Marx 
• Races, which was written by a number of MGM contract writers including George Seaton (who later went on to write and direct Miracle on 34th Street), seems to me to soften the Brothers up quite a bit more; Groucho's less of a * schnorrer*, Chico has a real job (working at the sanitarium), as does Harpo (a jockey?!), and their goals are even nobler: they don't just want to help out young lovers, they want to save a failing sanitarium from the evil businessman. I Had that Same Horse When I Had My Eyes Examined
• She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. Groucho Marx 
• In his world of small-time hustlers, grouchy thugs and laconic crimefighters, there's always somebody with a new angle to work or a new beef to settle.
• Halpern Sr had always had a gift for the grouchy apophthegm. Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
• Before you roll your eyes, before you grouch, before you yell at me, wait.
• I don't want to disturb him too much and being grouchy doesn't make me feel very cuddly anyhow, so I head out quickly and hope that the walk to work will clear my head a bit.
• He's an old grouch but she puts up with him.
• Because Papa grew so grouchy and irascible as his health failed, I wondered at times how many people really liked him.