(1) So often did John torment his elder brother – because, grouchy alcoholic prick that he was, he hated to acknowledge a debt – one has to wonder if he cast Francis in a minor part in Young Mr Lincoln simply to let him witness, day after day, his own signature role being forever obliterated by Henry Fonda's entrancing new reading.
(2) A case of a 4-year old boy with de Grouchy syndrome was reported.
(3) According to Jean de Grouchy, the emergence of a new species is dependent on an "acceptable" chromosomic rearrangement, which passing from the heterozygous state (in the original bearer) to the homozygous state (in some of his enbred offspring) becomes definitively established and creates a population sexually isolated from its acestors.
(4) That, perhaps, is an aspect of Mourinho that is often overlooked, that while he can be grouchy with the media, while he pursues feuds with rivals and can fall out with his own players, he is also capable of inspiring devotion.
(5) The nine actors had never come together since, in large part because of the grouchiness of Plummer.
(6) Then her adoptive parents Hans and Rosa ( Geoffrey Rush , all twinkly grandpa, and Emily Watson , super-grouchy but with a heart of gold) take in and hide the Jewish son of the man who saved Hans's life in the Great War.
(7) Keener and Hoffman make a plausibly grouchy-affectionate couple, each wondering about paths not taken 25 years earlier, while Daniel is the group's fanatic purist, a violin-maker and teacher, insistent on emotional engagement with the music and the composer, but in the group's social dynamics he usually plays the devil's note.
(8) During the final flutters of 2011, as Britons shivered under grouchy skies, the best three triathletes in the world sat down to play poker in Lanzarote.
(9) Following an introductory illustration of the clinical characteristics of the 18q syndrome (De Grouchy syndrome), the paper describes the treatment carried out in a young patient with harelip and cleft palate in addition to chromosomopathy.
(10) Despite much angsty speculation by Guardian colleagues that Stevens's star wattage would allow him to beef up his part at the expense of theirs, his role, by the final cut, had been reduced to a cameo as grouchy factotum, grumbling in turn about Assange and Guardian investigative reporter Nick Davies .
(11) Two studies were conducted on samples of high school boys (N = 210); both confirmed the presence of five mood factors: Cheerful-Depressed, Energetic-Tired, Good natured-Grouchy, Confident-Unsure, and Relaxed-Anxious.
(12) Pundits scoff at their naivety, but opinion polls show the leader of this revolution – a grouchy socialist with unkempt white hair and a disdain for media niceties – pulling ahead of more-polished establishment rivals in the race to lead his party.
(13) Suddenly, for South Korea, there was a chance where previously there had merely been grouchy stalemate.
(14) This combination of symptoms is compared with the well known Bardet-Biedl syndrome and the De Grouchy syndrome and is found to constitute a new syndrome.
(15) So I can be grumpy and grouchy, and I can also be depressed.
(16) Some praise the books because they encourage boys to read, others criticise them for their toilet humour and irreverent attitude; the title character is a superhero devised by two young students about their grouchy school principal, Mr Krupp.
Tetchy
Definition:
(a.) See Techy.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a marathon of tetchy bilateral talks and barbed plenary speeches, the Chinese premier – who refused to enter the negotiations directly – flew back to Beijing without any public comment.
(2) It didn't look as if that was quite how he remembered it, but May pressed on, becoming ever more tetchy.
(3) Simon Walters, the political editor of the Mail on Sunday and co-author of the 17 June story, will appear before Leveson on Monday afternoon, raising the prospect of tetchy exchanges with the judge.
(4) And yet Dame Eileen's tetchy objection that casting middle-aged men as girls is not authentic kept coming to me as I braved the heat and seats at the Wanamaker.
(5) They are better than that team out there today, that’s the problem.” But a tetchy Van Gaal was in no mood to tolerate the opinions of a successful former generation.
(6) In a tetchy BBC Question Time encounter with Ukip’s Nigel Farage , it was Brand who produced the zinger, with the jibe that his opponent was “a pound-shop Enoch Powell ”.
(7) Hunt was emollient and calm, becoming tetchy only when challenged over the issue of GP contracts.
(8) The architect Zaha Hadid cut short a tetchy BBC radio interview to mark her being awarded the 2016 Riba Royal Gold Medal after mounting an angry defence of her Qatar World Cup stadium and Tokyo Olympic stadium projects.
(9) As the world's second- and third-biggest oil consumers, they are also rivals for energy, which has led to tetchy rows over a Siberian oil pipeline and gas fields in the South China Sea.
(10) But it became a rambling, often tetchy performance from Putin, repeatedly scolding journalists for failing to understand him, or for leaving their mobile phones on.
(11) Abbott is already trying to calm his friends on the right, tetchy at Turnbull’s profile and Abbott’s continuing low poll ratings.
(12) It's a fair enough decision I guess, but this hasn't been a tetchy game, I wonder whether there was a need to get the cards out there.
(13) But in one of a number of tetchy exchanges between the pair, Hodge declared herself “very sceptical about that”.
(14) In increasingly tetchy exchange, Myners says that the Co-op was paying a dividend worth £1bn in today's money.
(15) The media got into crisis mode, naturally, but we were never really tetchy: there was no hunt for Those Responsible, as one suspects there will be if things get really dry this time around.
(16) There was the truculent Ray Donovan, featuring Jon Voight; the truculent Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman as an absurdly tetchy racetrack gambler and gangster, involving much mumbling in half-lit rooms; and there was the truculent Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer as a corrupt Chicago mayor, which never quite escaped the stigma of expecting Niles Crane to burst into the room in a flap about missing his appointment to visit the newly opened downtown doll museum.
(17) New York Republican Lee Zeldin said: “There is another alternative other than war; it’s a better deal ... America got played like a five string quartet.” Like a Senate version last week , the lengthy hearing got increasingly tetchy, with both sides frequently interrupting each other, and Kerry – who entered on crutches after breaking his leg cycling – was forced to stand and stretch at times.
(18) Mantel added: “As for ex-politicians who have weighed in: the same tetchy commentators who made fools of themselves when my stories were first published have been persuaded to do it again.
(19) They - and Labour - should also worry about a feeling that can be picked up all over this constituency: that the tetchy disconnection from politics that went nuclear with the expenses crisis, was probably perpetuated by the very public fall of Chris Huhne, and shows no signs of going away, least of all round here.
(20) The chief executive, who has faced a campaign from some newspapers to step down following the publication of the report into serious failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust , endured a long, tetchy grilling two weeks ago from the Commons health committee.