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[ UK /ɡɹˈʌmpi/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹəmpi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. annoyed and irritable

How To Use grumpy In A Sentence

  • WC Fields looms round and grumpy, his bulbous nose glowing, piggy eyes shut from lack of sleep.
  • The voice was low, and he sounded like those people who were grumpy all the time.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • They make us hyper and overexcited and, once faded, leave us grumpy or exhausted or or tearful or craving more.
  • Initial attempts to find revolutionary grandmothers were at first met with grumpy rejection. Times, Sunday Times
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