curmudgeon
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bear, bellyacher, complainer, crab, crank, croaker, crosspatch, fusser, griper, grouch, grouser, growler, grumbler, grump, murmurer, mutterer, sourpuss, whiner
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Fellow curmudgeons will also recognize all of my bugbears as losing battles. — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, "Semantic Drift," 22 July 2019 But his views on the tech industry are those of a curmudgeon. — Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic, "Is Josh Hawley For Real?," 25 July 2019 Even noted curmudgeon Simon Cowell cracked a smile as Islam conquered the ballad's high notes. — Scottie Andrew And Saeed Ahmed, CNN, "A teary Julianne Hough awards a golden buzzer to a 12-year-old Broadway fan on 'America's Got Talent'," 10 July 2019 And in what’s increasingly a young man’s game, Freeman, wedged between the kids and the curmudgeons, remains the club’s dominant force. — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, "Braves ready to run away with NL East? 'It's hard not to notice us'," 24 June 2019 Thompson's Katherine Newbury is very much a David Letterman type -- a set-in-her-ways curmudgeon who treats the new network president (Amy Ryan, under-employed) as the latest Christmas-help nuisance to pass through her orbit. — Brian Lowry, CNN, "Mindy Kaling's 'Late Night' pulls back the curtain on late-night TV," 7 June 2019 When put into real-life practice, the phrase can do remarkable things to change even the staunchest winter curmudgeon’s mood. — Vogue, "Day 12: Embrace the Cold," 12 Nov. 2018 With each disembodied quote, with each one-way transmission, he is reduced to a Luddite and a curmudgeon and a hater and a snob and worse. — New York Times, "Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It," 26 June 2018 There was never any shortage of exclamation points online, nor a shortage of curmudgeons to bemoan their ubiquity. — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, "Exclamation Point Inflation," 27 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'curmudgeon.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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