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Cross and complaining.

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Usage examples (35)
  • Students are often grouchy when they have to get up early to study for tests.
  • The only way that people have a "right" to be grouchy is if they are "ACTIVELY" engaged in doing something about the problems.
  • – and "grouchy" is a gross understatement for the suffering that so many American citizens are now subjected to because of it.
  • He was long known as a grouchy shoe-maker, but was sanitized in the 1950s by advertisers and Walt Disney.
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