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.
Even if we're headed in that direction and the progress is irritatingly sluggish, one shouldn't be grouching about it.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. Groucho Marx
And a side note...the "grinch" cake...it looks more like Oscar the Grouch to me... Seasonal Non Sequiturs
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. Groucho Marx
And the pressure is on to stop grouching and help boost a sagging Christmas retail season.
If I could sum up our problems in a sentence, I would have to say that he was kind of a Bad Boy: brooding, depressed, grouchy, inattentive, unaffectionate.
Joe Cocker plays a pimp/hippie character whose goatee is painted on using the same technology used by Groucho Marx no less than 355 years ago. Across the Universe is the Best Comedy of 2007 | Best Week Ever
Meanwhile, aids-de-camp galloped along the lines, announcing the arrival of Grouchy, to reanimate the drooping spirits of the men; for, at last, a doubt of victory was breaking upon the minds of those who never before, in the most adverse hour of fortune, deemed _his_ star could set that led them on to glory. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
LIke I care that an old grouch is going to appear on SNL what a joke!!!!!! McCain to make SNL appearance
I was so tired and grouchy I just couldn't be bothered.
I thought you were grouchy and cranky, but I had no idea what two teeth could do to a human being, and the world will never be the same.
It merely brands you as the department's top grumbler, grouch and complainer.
Groucho Marx's flippant remark about the inability of any photograph to capture his inner beauty is profoundly insightful.
The anti-Valentine zealots are not just grouching about a harmless festivity.
Well, I appear to have recovered from my grouchy spell this week.
I didnt acctually cook on my own till I was about 12 years old, I am the oldest of 4 kids and my youngest sister was hungry one day and the only thing I could figure out how to cook was a grilled chease sandwich... at that time she called a grouchy sandwich she was 6 The Cook Next Door Meme
“I told you before,” she said grouchily, and Annika interrupted her. Red Wolf
It came across as something of a head scratcher, like a grouchy surfer getting territorial over an epic swell.
So, you take a sentence like -This is a classic line from Groucho Marx: "I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.
Suddenly he swivelled round and began doing Groucho Marx impressions.
If you are grouchy, irritable, or just plain mean, there will be a £100 charge for putting up with you.
I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal. Groucho Marx
You may complain, they say; you may grouch about globalisation, bellyache about environmental destruction, grizzle about consumer society.
She gave priceless performances as the precisely perfect foil for Groucho Marx.
He and the girls, in common with the other members of the Comet Film Company, had to portray many different scenes in the course of a season's work, and though some of it was distasteful, it was seldom objected to by anyone, unless perhaps by Pepper Sneed, the "grouch," or perhaps by Mr. Wellington Bunn, an actor of the old school, who could not reconcile himself to the silent drama. The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real
Of all the women, the most interesting is the chronically grouchy Cristina, "an aggressive little witch," as one patient calls her.
Ed O Neil is the grouchy dad, Sofia Vergara is the feisty mom, Ty Burrell is the goofy dad. NBC Interested in Picking Up 24 | /Film
I am rock's foremost poet and ill-mannered grouch.
Awl harpmony nao .. ai bet wun getz grouchy wen tehy fite ! Video: Adopted Brothers - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
It will just get you a reputation as a pedant and a grouch. Times, Sunday Times
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women. Groucho Marx
She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. Groucho Marx
A tough guy wants Groucho and his brother Zeppo to plug a rival with the gats he gave them.
Today is my first day back at work after a fortnight's holiday and I'm feeling grouchy.
Yet with the rise of the grouch has come a colourful backlash. Times, Sunday Times
After years of cruel deprivation they seemed to be very contented in a grouchy, ursine, way.
It merely brands you as the department's top grumbler, grouch and complainer.
Thus McCarthy occasionally came across as gruff or grouchy in this World Cup and some reporters took delight in this.
As the convicts would say, it had a "grouch" against the world. Chapter 5
It merely brands you as the department's top grumbler, grouch and complainer.
He was born at Grouchy, near Gréville, Normandy, of peasant stock, and spent his early years as a farmworker alongside his father.
Most religions and some of the more grouchy philosophers teach that suffering ennobles us - it makes us better people.
It will just get you a reputation as a pedant and a grouch. Times, Sunday Times
It doesn't matter what Groucho or Elvis or Britney or any other one-name performer does or did... the critics won't be placated.
I think I look fine even though I am over weight, have nappy hair, and seem a bit grouchy, as you would if you were a freak having to put up with normal people.
– and "grouchy" is a gross understatement for the suffering that so many American citizens are now subjected to because of it. 'People have a right to be grouchy,' Axelrod says
She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. Groucho Marx
Even if we're headed in that direction and the progress is irritatingly sluggish, one shouldn't be grouching about it.
Of course, no car is perfect, and I did have a couple of grouches with this one.
Now, every podunk in America has a video camera in their pocket, making visits difficult and necessitating clever disguises, like some groucho glasses or a funny hat. Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Arizona gets visited by mysterious, UFO-esque lights
She was cranky and grouchy most of the time and her feet hurt but she had work to do.
This old grouch could be converted yet. The Sun
He was grouchy at me for being late, but then warmed up.
He was long known as a grouchy shoe-maker, but was sanitized in the 1950s by advertisers and Walt Disney. Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. Groucho Marx
I finally just found a set of groucho glasses in my bag. A Message From WonderBaby | Her Bad Mother
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. Groucho Marx
However, a few months on Rousay cured him of the notion and he retreated back to London - ‘to accidie, ennui and bilious conversations in the Groucho Club’.
Sometimes his signature smile was gone and he seemed irritated or grouchy. Christianity Today
Cultural exiles in a world they had created, disgruntled Hawks spent their most triumphant decade not basking in their new uncontested power but grouching about how America had gone ‘soft,’ become feminized.
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. GROUCHO MARX
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. GROUCHO MARX
January 10, 2008 at 9:49 am breeng teh soap an the groucho nose an glasses. “Clerks” kittehs - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. Groucho Marx
You may complain, they say; you may grouch about globalisation, bellyache about environmental destruction, grizzle about consumer society.
To a grouch, changes in a business environment are nothing more than bubbles.
It's an uninspired, cynical and distinctly saggy effort, to be honest, which deserves to sink without a trace, but then again Hugo HUGO! is grouchily handsome and wears a lovely jaunty porkpie hat, so maybe it's actually dead good and deserves all the success it's predicted. This week's new singles
‘Sorry for not leaping for joy,’ he grouched in an annoyed fashion.
I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal. Groucho Marx
It wouldn't be so funny to hear just any ordinary grouch complaining about his wife's idiosyncrasies to a starving 6-year-old.
Groucho, who had taken to wearing a fake greasepaint moustache in vaudeville, refused to grow a real one for the cameras.
Put a smile on the face of the grouchiest curmudgeon. The Sun
Sorry, I'm a grouch, but can we do this tomorrow?
So we bought our minivan, and we've both been grouchy about it.
He's cheap, grouchy and stuck with the name Ebenezer, but that doesn't stop him from making us laugh with his wicked old ways or, eventually, breaking our hearts with his sad childhood and lonely old life. Houston Press | Complete Issue
Contemporary society, like contemporary dictators, can no longer be undermined by ridicule, Zizekexplains that "GrouchoMarx authoritarianism" is imminent, writers understand that the function of Dada and all intervention/provication movements is exhausted in an age where a self-satisfied social norm has dialectically synthesized with surrealism and the rest ... Mr.Dostoevsky
Ha! I think I see myself!" exclaimed the "grouch," as he looked for a seaweed-cushioned rock whereon to sit. The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real
‘Damn you,’ I muttered grouchily, and in keeping with his all-too-good mood, he simply poked me and carried on.
I'm a grouchy teenager afraid to get my band t-shirt crusted with flour.
A noble by birth, the young Grouchy was schooled in the pre-Revolution royalist cavalry, rising to a lieutenancy in the élite Compagnie Écossaise of the king's Garde du Corps.
You have the perfect opportunity to turn the grouch in your life into the equivalent of Santa's little helper this weekend.
I wrote the above a few days ago, and now I'm not grouchy at all.
Their discovery made them grouchy; they tried to clear us away.
Players have grouched about scheduling changes, complained about transportation and revolted over court conditions. How Saturday Could Save the Open
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. GROUCHO MARX
As a Democrat, the only reason I'm grouchy is because I'm sick and tired of the endless negativity and criticism by the right, on every nit-picking thing they can come up with. 'People have a right to be grouchy,' Axelrod says
‘I don't see why I have to be here,’ he muttered grouchily, kicking a column and scowling blackly at it.
Because Papa grew so grouchy and irascible as his health failed, I wondered at times how many people really liked him.
I know I sound really grouchy and maybe I am but when I heard everybody complaining I got annoyed.
Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. Groucho Marx
They're grouched because they got to dance together. CHAPTER II
This is apparently the process by which the once little-used "vergerhade" came to be defined as an animatronic groucho marx in a tutu and straitjacket. Archive 2007-10-01
Last time we met he was in spectacular sore head mode, grouching at a line of questioning he didn't like and being airily evasive if he felt we were getting too deep.
Meantime, he or she falls asleep in class, claims to be too tired to do homework, and seems to get grouchier each day. Sleeping in may help teens’ school performance
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? Groucho Marx
An evangelical agnostic, Linton tends to be amusingly (or at least assertively) grouchy (although her antifeminism can make modern readers similarly grouchy...) Readable
When Groucho Marx's son Arthur was small, he wanted an air rifle.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. Groucho Marx
His books were picaresquely post-modern and his humour was Marxian (tendance: Groucho). The Perfect Literary Storm
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. Groucho Marx
Fishlegs hangs on tight as a wart-hoggish Gronckle, a surprisingly likable grouch, flies through the air in How to Train Your Dragon. How to train yourself to spot a dragon
A true lady or gentleman remains at home with grouch same as if they has pneumonia.
You're a cynical grouch, says my colleague in a huff, as she fails to win me over with her ‘romantic ‘ideals.
You may complain, they say; you may grouch about globalisation, bellyache about environmental destruction, grizzle about consumer society.
I guess it depends whether you have your own personality or whether you are a lemming-like follower of current trends," Mr. Lutz grouched. Intelligent Design: To Save Itself, GM Needs Style
Then a Jeopardy! clue is displayed: "Groucho quipped, 'One morning I shot' this 'in my pajamas.'
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. Groucho Marx
They hammer its head off and get grouched because it ain't an angel of obedience. CHAPTER XXXI
Yes, it is a bit much for Don Imus to have a sudden attack of Emily Post and start grouching about the political comments chestily flown at Coretta Scott King's funeral service in the presence of President Bush and his lovely wife Rita. Appeasing the Geezer: James Wolcott
My impression from reading memoirs of folks like Groucho Marx and Moe Howard is that live entertainment and movies coexisted for some time into the sound era. And the Book You Rode In On
Maria in the morning was an entirely different entity from Maria the rest of the day, and twice as grouchy and irritable.
Meanwhile, several foreign crew members who were unaccustomed to the punishing heat and humidity turned into sluggish grouches.
Yes, I did, obviously," he says, as though I am grouchily missing the gag. Johann Hari: Kidnapped, Raped, Married: The Extraordinary Rebellion of Ethiopia's Abducted Wives
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. Groucho Marx
For now it was the Tyro who went to bed, miserable and at odds with a hostile world; whereas Little Miss Grouch dreamed of a morrow, new, glorious, and irradiated with a more splendid adventurousness than her slave had ever previsioned. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage
He's grouchy, mean-spirited, and crude, but, of course, hiding a heart of gold just waiting to be melted by the wonderful ladies on his team.
Noted by the French ambassador in the United States for their moderate behavior and sincere expressions of repentance, all the Grouchys were amnestied in 1819 and returned to France the following year.
Formerly the Queen of the Groucho Club, she now spends more time queening it over Brighton where she lives.
As groucho Marx said "I'm aman of Principle if you don't like these I have others" So says Anna Bligh! Newmatilda.com - Comments
When I first saw the "grinch" cake I was thinking more along the lines of Oscar the Grouch. Seasonal Non Sequiturs
Imperiyush Grouchi leedin-Man kitteh duz nawt want bubbLOl baff. I don’t believe it… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
In the television ad ... the apple character is named Bad Apple and is described as grouchy and sour and depicted as meddling and scheming," they wrote. Adland
He was such an appallingly grouchy individual that the university never did give him a professorship.
Consequently I now have a reputation as a sourpuss and a grouch.
This study is about the 'Temporal Dynamics of Smiling' and I also came across one titled 'Spontaneous vs. posed facial behavior: automatic analysis of brow actions' (think Groucho Marx).
But the Templeton's most famous baby is the young field of Positive Psychology, launched by University of Pennsylvania's Martin Seligman after his five-year-old daughter accused him of being a "grouch" and he resolved improve his outlook. Barbara Ehrenreich: The Right's Academic Universe
Isn't there another grouchy, unproductive and anonymous, online malcontent - one who shares your discomfort for "turgid" things - for for you to play with, say losergrrl, for instance? "This man is a clear-eyed pragmatist who will get the job done" — says Biden of Obama.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx
Take one disco drumbeat, add a bouncy bassline, throw in a grouchy guitar noise and a cheeky mockney songsmith, and hey presto!
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. Groucho Marx
It was at Sinatra's birthday party that Groucho and Alice met while duetting on Lydia The Tattooed Lady. Danny Dyer's revealed he was pals with Pinter. An odd couple, but look at these
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. Groucho Marx
They grouched and murmured to the sound of the engines as the vehicles went groaningly upward. A Plague of Angels
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. Groucho Marx
CRAMER: Because Washington has an idea about Bob Dole that he's some kind of snarler, that he's a grouch and a snarler and a bitter man. What it Takes: The Way to the White House
SIMON: A little girl with frizzy hair and glasses sitting at her desk, I was glumpy, I was grouchy, I was slouching in my chair. Books for Kids, for Every Winter Holiday
Most of the books were in remote storage, so you couldn't brouse thru and find all the authors writing on your research topic, you either had to know exactly what you needed or make wild-ass guesses out of the card catalog - then wait a day for them to be dug out for you by grouchy librarians frustrated with having no shelving. The excuse of architecture
I can so understand that, and I wouldn't want to spoil any of the fun of that by participating in a grouchy thread, but I don't really think anyone's grouching.
Its grouchy tone also belies the appeal of its author. The Times Literary Supplement
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. Groucho Marx
The usage grouches are just flat wrong about the history and structure of English.
Its grouchy tone also belies the appeal of its author. The Times Literary Supplement
What did we by fumariaceae out his turtledove and noncombustible similarly lucrative lepisosteidae grouchily the rigidification bareback? Rational Review
He's an old grouch but she puts up with him.
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. Groucho Marx
This old grouch could be converted yet. The Sun
First Impression: Oscar is described as grouchy, likely thanks to Oscar the Grouch of Sesame Street fame. 5-Star Baby Name Advisor
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho Marx
At the risk of sounding a tad Baden Powell, the combination of fresh air, freedom and new friends on tap transformed the children from hooded grouches into apple-cheeked moppets.
A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. Groucho Marx
To be fair though I've only ever had a handful of complaints about the language in three years so the grouches keep it to themselves or just never come back.
Instead of closing the barn door after the horses have galloped to freedom and grouching about the loss of your property… why not open the barn door and let them bound free?
“I heard that,” Nana grouched, lifting her head from the notebook. Arcane Circle
I intend to live forever, or die trying. Groucho Marx
This is why I like him; he's an entertaining grouch.
I am appalling in the morning, really foul-tempered and grouchy.
This study is about the 'Temporal Dynamics of Smiling' and I also came across one titled 'Spontaneous vs. posed facial behavior: automatic analysis of brow actions' (think Groucho Marx).
I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal. Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx had a thick black moustache.
Indeed, the main grouch with him was not his decision to come out, but his decision to first deny it.
Perhaps like Groucho Marx they have other views about exclusive clubs.
More often, the underground traffic jam gnarls, and her overcrowded car will be filled with grouchy commuters, sardined shoulder-to-shoulder, sweaty and cramped, for almost an hour.
I had a headache and was incredibly grouchy.
I'm inspired to create my own traumatic Halloween comics now (including the time my father didn't think my Ghostbusters costime was "costumey" enough so he forced me to go with Groucho make-up on in addition to the jumpsuit and proton pack). Scrubbles.net: Frights!
“No, I just thought you might have come to your senses and begged off from that invitation,” Carol said grouchily. Johanna Lindsey
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? Groucho Marx
Labels: evolution, groucho marx, linguistics, nature, vergerhade posted by John McGrath @ 1: 03 AM 2 Comments Archive 2007-10-01
This blog takes its name from the French word grognard, which means roughly "grumbler" or "grouch. What's a Grognard?
A true lady or gentleman remains at home with grouch same as if they has pneumonia.
Cheer up, Jason, you look like a little grouch.
Kevin groaned and grouchily got in the back seat.
At this point I kick my grouchy husband out of his own bed to sleep on the couch where he can get some uninterrupted shuteye. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
If there is anyone who seems to embody the Renaissance completely and totally, it is this grouchy5) and self-centered painter, scholar, inventor, scientist, writer, anatomist, etc.
One of my main grouches against the council is that they don't run enough buses.
But when he's on form, he's as brilliant as former partner John - and less of a grouch.
An hour or so later, when they showed up, my sister was even grouchier. Or It Could Just Be the Sleeping Pill
Say “computer lingo” to most people, and they’ll rattle off their rudimentary knowledge of the meaning of byte, hacker and cybersex gritch the last marries digiporn to the portmanteau of grouch and glitch, producing a phrase meaning “hacker’s complaint about the encryption of dirty pictures”. No Uncertain Terms
The court battle would drag on for years, long after Groucho was dead.
Papa has always been a crotchety, grouchy, grumpy yet extremely lovable old coot.
He has often done this, when not "sea-grouched," and often he has mentioned with pride -- yes, with reverence -- a master with whom he sailed five years. CHAPTER XXIV
If your answer is no and you wake up feeling grumpy and grouchy instead, then you may want to reconsider napping.
Yet with the rise of the grouch has come a colourful backlash. Times, Sunday Times
We can parse the first sentence in two ways, but we naturally assume that Groucho meant to say that (he in his pyjamas) (shot (an elephant)).
I understated the grouchiness of the article, and the author's obvious unhappiness with a lot of new historicism.
The only way that people have a "right" to be grouchy is if they are "ACTIVELY" engaged in doing something about the problems. 'People have a right to be grouchy,' Axelrod says
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. Groucho Marx
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. Groucho Marx
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. Groucho Marx
I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal. Groucho Marx

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