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Grumpily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a surly manner; sullenly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But those countries still come to IGF and take part, albeit grumpily.
  • (2) Grudzinskas is speaking to me from Rome, and sounds tired and, occasionally, grumpily Australian.
  • (3) This is true of any decent diary, from the grumpily conservative Duke of Newcastle, whose obscure account of the passing of the Reform Act is a masterpiece of old reaction, to the outstanding diarists of the last century — crusty Tory MPs led by Chips Channon and Alan Clark, or Labour's Bernard Donoughue, chronicling the baroque mayhem of the later Wilson years.
  • (4) "These people were the enemy and everyone else was like 'Stephen's looovely '," he recalls, grumpily.
  • (5) Older men who always assumed that spending long periods of time away from their small children was the right thing to do, meanwhile, find themselves grumpily trying to hire younger ones who feel very differently.
  • (6) So now I'm sitting grumpily in a spaceship with my arms folded, wearing a stovepipe hat.
  • (7) Crystal Palace 1-2 Arsenal | Premier League match report Read more “It’s amazing that we have lost today,” he said grumpily.
  • (8) And suddenly there's another skirmish in the box as Ricketts reacts very, er, grumpily to that challenge from Schuler.
  • (9) Apparently not Read more Labour has a similar kind of army – engaged people who are brimming with enthusiasm, rather than simply grumpily opposed to the Tories – and it needs to use them to build a genuine social movement.
  • (10) Klinsmann has now sat back down, and is glowering grumpily from the bench.
  • (11) He says he found the more usual reaction - grumpily wallowing in the music of one's youth - equally unpalatable, and seems genuinely horrified by the suggestion that the music scene would be livened up considerably if he reformed the KLF.
  • (12) They are celebrating an non-relegation party in the changing room next door,” the Dortmund manager noted grumpily at the Weserstadion, “I wouldn’t write us off yet”.

Grumpy


Definition:

  • (a.) Surly; dissatisfied; grouty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And those who get their kicks from purloining stuff that they’re expected to pay for were especially grumpy.
  • (2) When Michael is naughty she threatens to hand him over to "the policeman" and she sends grumpy Jane to exile inside a cracked Doulton bowl.
  • (3) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (4) Counting down to a 3D-printed Grumpy Cat in 3... 2... 1...
  • (5) Do co-efficients simply take no notice of real and meaningful competitive results, or am I just grumpy this morning?"
  • (6) Despite the pro-AV leader, Ed Miliband, having stuck his neck out a few times for the yeses, belligerent turns by grumpy old stagers such as John Reid and David Blunkett have created the impression that the people's party has no interest in giving the people more of a say.
  • (7) As a result, they feel worse off, and understandably grumpy.
  • (8) And the Doctor is more than ready to welcome her back, said Smith, referring to the Christmas episode in which an increasingly grumpy Time Lord seemed unable to get over the loss of previous companions Amy and Rory .
  • (9) Reckless, therefore, to give away an earned advantage this week, when the journalists are getting increasingly grumpy about having the microphone physically taken away from them (the Tories on Tuesday) and being jeered at by party supporters (Ukip on Wednesday and Labour on Monday, despite Ed Miliband’s plea to be polite and welcoming.)
  • (10) The Labour leader will have surprised those who thought he was simply a grumpy old political boss.
  • (11) Eventually, a 12-year-old girl called Chyrstal – a name that surely wouldn't exist except for in a Lifetime Christmas movie – takes Grumpy home.
  • (12) And it is the meme, or rather one particular meme, that is the prime cause of Dawkins's current grumpiness.
  • (13) Grumpy neither denied nor confirmed the claims that some bodies had been moved to Donetsk.
  • (14) Net neutrality activists celebrate internet victory with grumpy cat parade Read more Lamb disagrees that the proposal wouldn’t be in shareholders’ best interests.
  • (15) If they're simply difficult, grumpy or selfish in the way male characters are, they provoke outrage and astonishment in the way male characters never do (hello, Lena Dunham.).
  • (16) On the surface, the grumpy pacifist iconoclast had little in common with the war hero author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom - apart from a weakness for inordinately long prefaces.
  • (17) Rudisha may be the greatest 800m in history, but even champions have to put up with grumpy dads.
  • (18) One self-confessed "grumpy old man" called it "nanny state nonsense".
  • (19) However, Rifkind’s own recent privacy issues had made that tricky; empty-chairing himself might have set an awkward precedent that the prime minister would not have appreciated, so he settled for looking grumpy and morose while Hazel Blears ran the show.
  • (20) It was only the hardcore English left, long after the celebrations had ended, hungover, bleary and grumpy.

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