How To Use Grump In A Sentence

It is a rebuke to those who grumpily accept their snail-paced status quo. Times, Sunday Times
WC Fields looms round and grumpy, his bulbous nose glowing, piggy eyes shut from lack of sleep.
Anyway, we grumped our way into town and did eventually get energised by it all and got through the whole session in good time.
The voice was low, and he sounded like those people who were grumpy all the time.
It is determined to cheer up the region's grumps.

There have been deals cut behind closed doors that are going to provide benefits for individual senators and their states, whether it's Vermont, Nebraska, or Florida," Chambliss grumped. Healthcare reform passes, freakout continues - poli
It began as a way of pacifying her when she was in a rare grumpy mood, and now it's the reason we go to Target.
Don't bother with the scenic railway, grumped the driver who picked us up from the Megalong Valley once we'd landed.
How am I supposed to maintain a good grump with you being so damned cute?
Madeleine burst out laughing at my grumpy expression and threw one of her pillows at me.
His Perseus is grumpy, whiny, and unpleasant, and not nearly the hero that could earn a place amongthe stars. Ray Subdues CLASH OF THE TITANS | Obsessed With Film
So he may appreciate the paradox of his lightning ascent in his second calling – not to mention the mutterings of those press-box colleagues who have toiled diligently for years without recognition from their trade's association and remember the days when they called him Captain Grumpy, a soubriquet he did his best to live up to. US hard courts will reveal if Andy Murray's lapses are part of a cycle | Kevin Mitchell
I was the first to send this picture in, and I am kind of grumped to see the author ignore my factual information that "Formoza" translates to "Levitation" in this advert. Formoza: We Are Competent Formoza The Time
It reminded my wife of her father, who we dub the grumpiest man alive. Home again…briefly | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
I was grading for a real curmudgeon, the grump who wound up being my thesis advisor.
You will be astonished to learn that this made him a bit grumpy. Times, Sunday Times
YOU might know that Cancer is sensitive and artistic - but what about grumpy and devious? The Sun
The Guardian's Book Review has a review of his new biography of the grumpiest man in popular music, which advises you to snap it up quick before Van's solicitors run their toothcombs over it.
Maybe I'm being a grump - perhaps it's good for our society to have shared community moments.
They make us hyper and overexcited and, once faded, leave us grumpy or exhausted or or tearful or craving more.
• And finally, the title grumpiest man of the week goes to author Howard Jacobson, whose view of modern life doesn't appear to have been lifted by his long-awaited Booker triumph with The Finkler Question. Hugh Muir's diary
Initial attempts to find revolutionary grandmothers were at first met with grumpy rejection. Times, Sunday Times
He wasn't grumpy, just a bit perplexed. Times, Sunday Times
Bucks kahuna George Karl always has been one of the league's grumpiest coaches, hut even he had been feeling a bit bluer than usual lately, suffering from a lack of fulfillment at work that dales back about a year.
Everybody says he is grumpy but he moans in the right way. The Sun
Grumpy old codgers such as Will Self and Bob Geldof have been moaning and groaning on prime-time TV about what really gets their goat.
So many trainers seem a bit grumpy. Times, Sunday Times
Because you've voiced your frustration at the way the poor leadership of Tulsa's establishment has damaged our city's beauty, history, safety, and economic viability, you are disqualified for reasons of being a naysayer, a grump, a negativist, from voicing your opinion on city policy. BatesLine: November 2005 Archives
Your niche is the oldest, grumpiest, grognardiest part of the gamer community! Pyramid Goes Monthly « Geek Related
If so, I'll happily settle into middle age and grump at the advertising people pandering to those young tykes with no respect.
And this Rambo, you might say he's a little grumpier than usual. -Really? -Yeah, it's jungle grumpiness .
But in Paris, where grumpiness is the socially approved mode, the smiles are shocking, as if someone had just put LSD in the wine supply.
Not to be outdone, his neighbors could be grouty and grump, glunch, grunch until they were worn out with gruntling. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
He plays him as a cuddly grump, a sweet-natured misanthrope, more doleful than angry.
The beloved will never grow tired and grumpy, unresponsive and older, but will always be perfect.
So disillusioned and grumpy is he that he writes a local newspaper column on the subject.
I marked my return by getting the bout of sinusitis that made last week's entries so grumpy.
Oh, I do have this screencap from the Howard Ends skybox, grumpy Nareth getting a "time out" with only Sulk Bunny and Captain Spaulding for company. "We are accidents, waiting to happen."
It makes it easier to stick on my grumpy game face and sail into the semis. The Sun
If I raise the issue he turns grumpy and says he didn't ask for my opinion. The Sun
It isn't just the sausage and bacon that make this place oily; it's the tables and chairs, the dusty potted plants in the window and the grumpy waitresses with their dinner lady hairnets.
And I got the grumps today because nine of ten friends I called today to ask nicely to hang out with said they couldn't, even if today was the only day in the week I could even contemplate hanging out.
This means I'm dopey (more than usual), grumpy and disorganised.
She turns the blandest of scenes into yak fests as she strides through CTU with the same kind of grumpiness most of us have in an office job were everyone takes us for granted. 'Can I do it myself?' 'Ok.' 'I can't do it.'
Sure, you've picked out something special for the spouse, the kids are taken care of, and you think you've even found something that your grump of a father-in-law won't grump about.
His star is on the wane and he has grown more grumpy, less inclined to perform. Times, Sunday Times
It is only a few seconds, though, and we're all of us entitled to a few seconds of grumpiness when emerging from a heavy sleep.
He's in full-nut mode in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week where he grumps about the decision from federal Judge Paul Magnuson that quite accurately pointed out the illegality of metro Atlanta withdrawing water all these years from Lake Lanier. Lowering the Barr - poli
The next day though was a real oddity, I found myself lapsing into a darker, and grumpier mood.
This is the reason so many journalists become cynical and grumpy, and more than a few turn to drink.
‘Finally, somebody,’ Paula grumped as she let him in.
At last some good news for us grumpy old men: we're not grumpy. Times, Sunday Times
More and more treatments are springing up to treat grumpy resting face. Times, Sunday Times
The engine starts with grumpy whine and wet chuff, and then falls into a sullen idle. Nissan GT-R: A 'Halo Car' With Devil's Horns
He was the grumpy old hero of One Foot in the Grave, a TV sit-com that ran for ten years and seized the hearts and minds of his fans all over the Kingdom.
If she does, someone PLEASE remind me not to be a grump and complain how dirty and old everything looks.
She gets very hot and grumpy, sweats lots, dehydrates and needs to be fed more, etc.
‘That's the worst I've ever felt after a victory,’ he grumped.
He would be well advised not to look so grumpy when he's being doorstepped. Damp Squib
Other athletes might turn up to the track for training with an attitude or they might well be grumpy or feeling down. Times, Sunday Times
For years, gift-givers have agonised over what to buy relations who happen to be grumpy teenage boys.
A coach can ride out a grumpy administration, dissatisfied fans or damaging headlines.
Feeling grumpy, beleaguered and at the end of your tether? Times, Sunday Times
I got jostled, bustled, bundled and grumped for being backward by requiring old-school hard copies. Giles Slade: Electronics Changes Books, Bookstores and Publishing for Christmas 2009
Suffice to say, I would not recommend this level of preparation when travelling with a fractious three-year-old and a grumpy husband.
It makes it easier to stick on my grumpy game face and sail into the semis. The Sun
And Carl’s grumpiness is leavened by his young sidekick and the great talking dog Doug. Jizzneyland: Photos from Erotica LA 2009
Last night Paco showed us a movie that just blasted my grumpiness away: You don't mess with the Zohan! Everyone needs a regular dosis of silliness
With most recent economic indicators pointing to a belated, but strong, recovery, they have been reduced to grumping about the pay levels of the new jobs being created.
You have a way of making life fun for even the grumpiest people. The Sun
‘I'm happy with the result, but not the performance,’ the 57-year-old grumped.
More and more treatments are springing up to treat grumpy resting face. Times, Sunday Times
Every yard has its boozers, shirkers, grumps, gamblers and cack-handed riders.
Being the big friendly galoot that I am (provided I'm not having a Grumpy Day), I generally nod and smile conspiratorially.
He is the grumpiest doc on the box and has a bad-tempered bedside manner. The Sun
Our partner may be harassed and grumpy with work pressures or trying to make ends meet. The Sun
Groups and grumps: Study identifies 'sociality' neurons Science Press Releases
I didn't even feel like going partying when my equally grumpy friends asked me to.
I'm just grumpy because the football will be starting tonight just as I walk into work.
His talent for being a big, grumpy guy with a sawed-off shotgun came from experience - lots of it.
Just a quickie today, as I'm kind of crampy and grumpy (what a great name for a band!) Undefined
I'll just be miserable and grumpy here, all by myself, without any help from anyone else, thank you.
But the real potential lies in the minds of everyone who has ever grumped about Britain's most beautiful places being overrun by trippers.
The grumpiest of malcontents would struggle to find fault with all that. Times, Sunday Times
The new Grumpy Old Men line of veterans Kirk Muller, Mike Keane and John MacLean became a real defensive weapon, joining productive lines centered by Mike Modano and Joe Nieuwendyk.
He comes across as a grump who thinks poetry on the subway is deep.
If you think there's a hint of the grumpy old man there, you'd be right.
I think he just has a bit of a cold, as his eyes are a bit watery, he is definitely lacking energy and vim and he is decidedly grumpy.
The events of last weekend infected leading lights of racing with a serious attack of the grumps. Times, Sunday Times
I particularly enjoyed my encounter with the lighthouse's grumpy postmistress.
He snapped at a cameraman and looked decidedly grumpy.
His full giggly countenance was replaced by a grumpy broody look.
But what really gets me grumpy is the hate some people have on for dandelions. Archive 2006-05-01
His talent for being a big, grumpy guy with a sawed-off shotgun came from experience - lots of it.
ConcernedParent says: mccain is trying to win the record for the grumpiest man alive. Think Progress » McCain refuses to condemn Palin’s ‘reload’ rhetoric.
With it being Easter, you're likely to be feeling stuffed, tired or grumpy.
In spite of their grumpiness, though, all went well.
He wasn't grumpy, just a bit perplexed. Times, Sunday Times
Drove home in grumpy silence, everyone was bummed about the camera disappearing/being stolen Don't let me down, I'm depending on you
Less harrowing is Jo Brand On Kissing Tue, 9pm, BBC4, in which the stand-up grumps her way through an investigation into the history, etiquette and cultural significance of smooching. It's a good week for … Romance
Grumpily, he backed down, though not without intimating that he would indeed take up the matter with People of Influence whom he knew.
I'm still occasionally breaking out in hives after eating (in the late evening, mostly), but have lost many of the other symptoms and am feeling much better (just grumpy: no Entemann's crumb donuts, no pepperidge farm oatmeal raisin cookies, no bagels, no etc.) Breakfast in Bed
I went to a party last night but only lasted about an hour and a half before I felt too inexplicably grumpy to stay any longer and left.
I have politely declined invitations to parties, and with pouty lips and a grumpy expression, I shall be retiring to my bedchamber at a sensible hour.
So many trainers seem a bit grumpy. Times, Sunday Times
If I raise the issue he turns grumpy and says he didn't ask for my opinion. The Sun
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Why wait upon grumpy old guests who don't appreciate those lovely locks all over their soup?
For those of you who are surprised that a grumpy old fossil like me actually works on a computer, it is all t'Editor's fault.
Try to keep your sense of humor and let it triumph over grumpiness.
She took control of all of us miserable, grumpy lot at the same time, too. The Sun
The beloved will never grow tired and grumpy, unresponsive and older, but will always be perfect.
Then wrapped up warm against a surprisingly cold day, I braved the tube full of its grumpy Christmas shoppers.
Some folk think I'm a grumpy old man.
It makes me wonder if Nintendo quickly revived this title solely to appease a grumpy E3 Infendo - Nintendo blog
I am ready to stop grumping about how badly the project has been handled.
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The Finnish researchers think being grumpy may cause internal damage, possibly to blood vessels. The Sun
The huge prevalence of texting, the internet, instant messaging and social networking means – however much dame-school grumps may deplore the fractured grammar and emoticons – the generation emerging is more engaged with the written word than any in living memory. Don't fear the Reader: how technology can benefit children's books
When we got to the end of the drive, he was a bit grumpy again, and then said I'd passed, despite a couple of minor faults.
The day-time guard at the entrance to our village is the most grumpy and surly man.
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The grumpy children had to sit cross-legged because we needed the floor space beneath their feet for luggage.
To make matters worse, I'd started to develop what I thought was a bit of a cold by Saturday evening so I was feeling decidedly grumpy and off-colour.
When he isn't working, he's grumpy and bad-tempered.
Well, not havin 'the management o' the whole of this world's affairs, (fort'nately, else a scrubbily managed world it would be), Grumpy finds out that when he wants to send little Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn
These are poets as moral actors voicing concerns and dilemmas; they are conscience-stricken purchasers, harassed homemakers, debonair lovers, anxious motorists and old grumps.
I ask him if his books are his children, and sense the old grump in his response that, if they are, they're children he can't wait to be rid of.
Maybe I'm just turning into a grumpy old cuss in middle age.
Grumpiness is not necessarily attractive, but fierceness and determination are definitely qualities that I admire.
Not that he had many fans here while he was alive, thanks to his shyness, unsociability and general all-round grumpiness.
Maybe I was too old, too grumpy, too picky, too frigid?
Michael's grumpy, careworn mother, an uprooted representative of the old immigrant Baltimore, lives out her days with them and adds to the friction.
But this time their domestic has turned them into even bigger grumps. The Sun
But he was not in a talkative mood and chomped his way grumpily through the meal, responding with grunts and monosyllables to all attempts to engage him in conversation.
Now, I don't wish to sound like just an old grump.
If you detect a hint of grumpiness here, then so be it.
By 5pm today, remove or block all the negative grumps on your Facebook and Twitter lists; make an appointment to see one person who's been really supportive of your work; whenever good or positive thoughts or people emerge, think of ways to sustain, develop, nurture, augment and encourage them. David Hochman: Ten Surprising Ways to Thrive as a Freelance Writer
I don't care whether Shannon is Claire's sister; she is the coldest, most hard-hearted, grumpy person I have ever met.
As we near the term's end, there remains one embarrassing element in Canadian politics that sticks out like a sore thumb - a collection of grumpy curmudgeons who care only about scoring cheap political points.
There are plenty of negative reviews written by grumpy people about this film.
Paul Antoine, it's for you," she called sleepily up the stairwell, with a touch of grumpy on the side. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
In fact the very suggestion that my grumpiness may not be entirely my own tends to put me in a bit of a grump.
This seemed to be the real Frank, grumpy, graceless, self-pitying and desperate to get away from his wife and kids.
Implacable DCI Burke chief grump since the death of Mark "Jim Taggart" McManus in 1994 verbally debagging joyless DI Reid over a misplaced lever arch file, before storming off to interrogate someone called Rab. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
This is one wrong that even the grumpiest of old men cannot right. Times, Sunday Times
He likes to have long lie-ins in the mornings, and is quite grumpy until he has his morning cup of coffee, which is usually early afternoons.
I always found great sport in asking these questions when I was particularly grumpy after a period of unpaid overtime.
Gee whiz that must have been a stonker of a grump - to maintain that level of rage in order to dismantle a house ... didn't he stop for one minute and think "hey - this is bonkers"? crikey. The Wisdom of Solomon...ish
The grumpy dog was concertinaed into a tiny corner of the boot.
The golfer's regard of Elin, 29, also seemed to confute the grumpy grousing he made about his marriage bed, complaining which "once we get married, the sex stops," according to sources. Archive 2009-12-01
Such unorthodox tactics incur the anger of Billy's traditionalist colleagues, most notably Philip Seymour Hoffman's head coach – a performance of mostly unleavened grumpiness, this, just as Robin Wright as Billy's estranged wife is simply supportive, and Kerris Dorsey as his 12-year-old daughter purely precocious. Moneyball – review
I've become more grumpy, bitter, disillusioned, and crabby with each advancing birthday.
Our ambassador to Afghanistan, William Crosbie, may indeed go down in the annals of diplomatic dis-entante as collateral damage for his on-the-nose criticisms of Karzai - his fall-on-sword resignation offer should be declined by Ottawa - but otherwise Canada has been only peripherally impacted by the cable chatter, although there might be cause for self-preoccupied grumping even in that. Thestar.com - Home Page
Mumblix Grumph, as much as I’d like to see Bush and Cheyney in chains, (appealingly alliterative is it not) I do not think that Hillary is the answer to the countries problems. It’s about trust « BuzzMachine
The last couple of Christmases I spent with Papa his seeming grumpiness annoyed me but now I realize he just wanted the hype to go away.
He wanted that magical journey that wasn't a car park with a reindeer and a grumpy farmer. Times, Sunday Times
For some readers this will be seen as a bit of gentle whingeing by a lovable grump. Times, Sunday Times
They can be grumpy and say nasty things, but they don't really mean it. Times, Sunday Times
Not that I'm going out of my way looking for bad press, but even the grumpiest rock critics haven't typed anything except exclamatory, flowery and glowing reviews of this magnificent pop six-piece.
I'm feeling off-colour and grumpy today.
She was moody and grumpy while her parents made their best efforts to be cheerful.
Nancy Parsons, "Balbricker": I was a serious thespian who had performed Shakespeare at the Pasadena Playhouse, but by the time I died in 2001, I made my peace with being best known as the grumpy no-fun anti-penis Balbricker. Patrick Sauer: Porky's : An Oral History
Grumps are the archenemies of the Dreamers and cause Bean Counters to cower in pockets of small ideas. Howard Steven Friedman: Grumps, Dreamers, Bean Counters, Cool Cats and Shills: The Taxonomy of High Profile Economists
As we approach the announcement of the winner of the award it seems like the perfect time to celebrate some of the curmudgeons and grumps that (for whatever reason) decided not to play…
Regardless of the grumpy image he portrays, my dealings with him tell me he's convivial company. Times, Sunday Times
Why does he spend the first half of the film in such a furious grump? Times, Sunday Times
In five minutes flat even the grumpiest kid there was bent over in a fit of laughter, as the parade of the looniest gestures imaginable gathered steam.
That a lack of sleep can make people grumpy is hardly news. Brain Study: Sleepy, grumpy and … Primitive? | Impact Lab
Those are not aimed at anyone who reads this, and I'm honestly not as grumpy as I sound.
Regardless of the grumpy image he portrays, my dealings with him tell me he's convivial company. Times, Sunday Times
At last some good news for us grumpy old men: we're not grumpy. Times, Sunday Times
He has walked around with a grumpy face in recent months and that transmits to the players. The Sun
On Christmas Eve, he wrote the first letter addressed explicitly to the Muscatine Journal, indulging a bit of tabloid journalism a fire fatality’s “feet were burned off, his face burnt to a crisp, and his head crushed in”.22 He mixed patriotic travelogue and grumpy preservationism. Mark Twain
As for chatty passenger/neighbors, my experience as professional grump and curmudgeon is never get started with such folks in the pro-flight phase because if you do, they don’t let up and they are led to believe that you actually want to talk and find them engaging — as if if they are doing you a favor by keeping you busy and informed about their life. Travelogue: the flight. « A Bird’s Nest
Perhaps it's understandable, seeing as he's associated with one of the grumpiest cultural icons in the history of humanity.
This was not a grump, it was the scirocco of sighs. Times, Sunday Times
But I figured there are always a few grumps in the bunch who will find a way to make themselves miserable about things. Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law
Most of the time, she was cranky and grumpy, experiencing this nonstop craving and hunger for ice cream.
‘All right, all right,’ she muttered grumpily, gathering her stuff and crumpling the empty paper bag in one hand.
Dolements could beset anyone, but especially a fiddlefaced glumpish fellow whose grum and glum afflicted all of his friends and neighbors with a severe outbreak of the humpy-grumpies. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
Which left them feeling grumpy and bashful. The Sun
I grumped, jumping and inspecting a wrench on the other side of the room. The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
Why does he spend the first half of the film in such a furious grump? Times, Sunday Times
Maybe it's the onset of the Grumpy Old Man syndrome, but Ottawa's new Green Bin program is giving me the pip. Archive 2010-01-01
So we see the roots of Toad’s grumpiness, which is a contrast to Frog’s sunniness, in ... a frog? In New Book, Frog and Toad Aren’t Friends
Whilst the rest of the world grumped through their first hour or so of consciousness, Chris was alert almost instantly.
And then I'm slightly more grumpy, and grumpier still, because someone has liquidized my brain and is pouring it down my nose.
The only quality I have seen emerge from indulging in such behavior is grumpiness and a disinclination to converse in anything but grunts.
I gather Olgrumpyfy may be "affiliated" to other local and web voces populi such as Privett and paddington. Do the Tories only say what they really think when they think nobody can hear them ?
You can put the smiles back on even the grumpiest family faces. The Sun
If I'm not working I get very grumpy.
But then I started noticing that I was just plain grumpy most of the time and I didn't want to get out of bed in the morning. Feeling Depressed?
I've been feeling a bit weird - sore tum, grumpy and tired.
Once his father rallied him upon his "grumpiness"; then he grew sullen -- though trying to smile -- thinking with mortification of his grandfather. The Seeker
Statler and Waldorf's grumpy balcony tweets, the Pig With The Froggy Tattoo trailer, The Green Album – is there any way the new Muppet film is going to live up to their drip-feed of Kermit hype? Populist: Items of interest this week
But this performance soon chased those grumps away. Times, Sunday Times
He has walked around with a grumpy face in recent months and that transmits to the players. The Sun
Although Rowan and Stephen joined in with the jollity of the occasion, grumpy Phil didn't really socialise.
More Britons than ever are 'turning to the bottle' to relieve stress - and half the nation isn't sleeping or is grumpy due to stress.

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