Usage examples (15)

• He is a crotchety old man and unashamed about his crotchetiness.
• It's hard to defend much of what Reed has been a part of over the last 30 years, from "My Red Joy Stick" to his crotchetiness that knows no ends.
• My grandma, her fierce independent spirit, her intelligence and sense of humor and sympathy, her crotchetiness and wisdom and strength, has been erased.
• But one should not ignore the long established (and beloved) tradition of cantankerousness and crotchetiness of the SF community when it comes to the Hollywood product.