(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.
Jumpy
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Example Sentences:
(1) The standoff has become a personal battle for the soul of the French right, a contest between Sarkozy’s jumpy and divisive personality and Juppé’s pipe-and-slippers calm.
(2) "Security forces have been on high alert for the last six days, jumpy, and were concerned that something might happen.
(3) "Jumpy" guards failed to recognise their leader and opened fire on a perceived security threat.
(4) However, Cameron has always been jumpy about highlighting these differences, acutely aware of the history of Downing Street battles, including Blair-Brown.
(5) Lewis was also aware that many in the unionist community were extremely jumpy about Corbyn’s Irish republican politics, and he thought his continued presence might reassure.
(6) The jumpy mood over MPs' behaviour was heightened when Fabricant was suddenly sacked for a series of injudicious tweets, including one saying it was about time Miller was sacked.
(7) Labour strategists were, in private, hilariously paranoid and jumpy, like dogs cowering at a firework display David Hare It was this kind of human weakness and fallibility that, up close, made the Labour party 20-odd years ago so sympathetic.
(8) Jay Pharoah and Shasheer Zamata’s Jay Z and Solange impressions were flawless, as was Keenan Thompson as Jay’s jumpy bodyguard and Maya Rudolph as Beyoncé.
(9) Twelve who retained 72 per cent of the load were normal or small at birth, amply fed on demand, and grew at accelerated rates, increasing from the 50th to the 88th mean percentile by ten weeks, when they were "fat, hungry, jumpy babies," exemplifying the Mg deficiency syndrome of growth.
(10) Arsenal were by turns sluggish, incisive and oddly jumpy as Olivier Giroud scored at both ends, one Sunderland’s equaliser, the other the second of his side’s three goals.
(11) Two-week-old pups of both strains showed good acquisition and retention in learning tests without shock, but the "jumpy" behavior disturbed performance to a certain degree in the SRH strain.
(12) Mauritanian sources said "jumpy" military guards at a checkpoint mistook Abdel Aziz, who was returning to the capital, Nouakchott, after a trip to the desert, for a security threat.
(13) Investors have become jumpy about any potential threat to the publisher's balance sheet should the civil cases result in damages payments.
(14) In the meantime, survivors of major catastrophes who experience acute symptoms of PTSD such as insomnia, nightmares, and jumpiness should be observed for nonresolution of symptoms over time, especially if there is a premorbid history of psychopathology or character problems.
(15) It is guarded by jumpy soldiers who permit no vehicle to stop near it, let alone any photographs.
(16) I get jumpy when someone honks their horn, and occasionally I have bad dreams and wake up at night, my wife asking me: “What’s up?”, and I tell her I’m being chased by Germans.
(17) The Tory scramble for a riposte shows how jumpy they are – and with good reason.
(18) When he affirmed that he did, I said that Tonight's the Night seemed like the inevitable culmination of the path Young blazed with Time Fades Away – his jumpy, nearly-out-of-control live album – and the intensely introspective On the Beach.
(19) Brussels attacker 'caught in Turkey last June', Turkish president says – live Read more On the first of three days of national mourning, the mood in the city was at once proud and sad, defiant and jumpy.
(20) The best new play category is between One Man, Two Guvnors, The Ladykillers, Collaborators and Jumpy , which was at the Royal Court and transfers to the West End this year.