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Grumpy little motifs keep welling up, or trying to. From the Cambridge English Corpus It may be part of the grumpy old man syndrome, but the environment around me is changing, and not for the better.
When your friend suggests a restaurant but you’re in a bad mood so you say “That’s a stupid restaurant” — even though you don’t really mind it — then you’re being grumpy, meaning irritable or grouchy.
The meaning of GRUMPY is moodily cross : surly. How to use grumpy in a sentence.
I had a student who was grumpy because he felt he deserved to be a director, but his organization didn't see it in him.
If you say that someone is grumpy, you mean that they are bad-tempered and miserable.
Definition of grumpy adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Some commanders in their periods of seclusion are constantly grumpy, and seem to resent the mere sound of your voice as an injury and an insult.
(Definition of grumpy from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
If you say that someone is grumpy, you think they are bad-tempered and miserable.
He'd been in a grumpy mood since he got up. She headed for the door, tossing a grumpy reply over her shoulder. Dean simply shook his head, committed to being grumpy for the entire day.
