How to Use grouchy in a Sentence

grouchy

adjective
  • I get grouchy when I'm tired.
  • Muffin goes toe to toe with a real grouchy granny and comes out on top.
    — Vanessa Armstrong, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Harold and Burt are both grouchy, but have different outlooks on life.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Yost is short and grouchy during win streaks, and has trained himself to be patient and smile through losing streaks.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Déjà's now staying in some kind of group home, and her foster dad is grouchy and terrifying.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 6 Mar. 2018
  • On the way back up to safety, another neighbor, a grouchy one, popped her head into the hall.
    — Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The fans who booed last week at Gillette Stadium seemed more grouchy than outraged.
    — Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Maybe that seems like a hot take from a grouchy, antisocial misanthrope (still not wrong).
    — Clay Skipper, GQ, 1 Feb. 2018
  • To Patriots fans, who were fed up by decades of losing, their coach had good reason to be grouchy.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • An uncomfortable bed can lead to all sorts of plights—from back pain, to restless nights, to grouchy mornings.
    — Isabelle Kagan, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Jumping into the cleanup whole hog produces only sunburn and grouchy spouses.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The Grinch will also host an ugly sweater party with green pancakes, green hot chocolate, and grouchy crafts.
    — Paula Conway, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Oscar’s grouchy shell hides a strangely tender soul, which is classic Scorpio.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Garrett receives a rose gleefully, and the third and final one-on-one goes to Blake, the grouchy princess.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 10 July 2018
  • Everything about it was meant to be a corrective against that straight white, grouchy private detective.
    — Caroline Reilly, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • In much the same way, Lucky’s grouchy demeanor doesn’t begin to explain the deep affection the rest of the town feels for him.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Her subsequent Facebook post about holding (and soothing) that stranger’s grouchy baby spread across the world.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The movie follows a kid and his friend who dig into the mysteries of a haunted house across the street after the grouchy old man who lived there dies in his yard.
    — Dustin Nelson, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Accounts of children reconnecting with estranged and grouchy parents are hardly thin on the ground.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This could lessen the odds of grouchy people complaining about long airport lines, or relieve the extra stress of passengers running to their gates.
    — cleveland, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Siegfried Farnon is a protective, grouchy, and hyper-responsible control freak, but none of that is static.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2023
  • That Utah rideshare driver, however, was justifiable more grouchy.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But look, unless the guest threw a gigantic party, most of them are going to say something similar because nobody wants to look like a grouchy host.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 24 May 2018
  • And a good number of Democrats are no doubt grouchy that their own personal policy demands are not being addressed by their party.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 10 May 2018
  • Levi is the stuff of romance hero dreams, a gruff, laconic figure whose grouchy exterior conceals his vulnerable heart.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The naps and the pudding cups, though, were turning me into a grouchy gaseous bridge troll who didn’t want to do anything, ever, including write her column or work on her book or leave the house to see a friend.
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 23 June 2017
  • Price’s public persona during his four seasons with the Sox ranged from indifferent to grouchy with only occasional smiles.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2020
  • For now, the contrast between Martin and his patients has a productive friction that gives Charles plenty of grouchy misanthropy to work with.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 4 Jan. 2026
  • His Romford accent thrilled grouchy Lee Marvin, and his horse-racing jokes disarmed the queen into a smile of genuine happiness.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • With his grouchy demeanor and his encyclopedic knowledge of explosives, Rocket has always been a key member of the Guardians crew.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022

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