Loses points however for reducing The Fall's world view to "curmudgeonly". From Wordnik.com. [FallNews - Unreadable.....] Reference
Paul S: From yesterday's Observer, a review of the new compilation - complete with obligatory use of 'curmudgeonly'. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews] Reference
Rooney’s remark was curmudgeonly, which is what he does for a living. From Wordnik.com. [Is Discrimination Against Latinos Getting More Costly? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
It's tempting for every generation to come over all 'curmudgeonly' with the next generation. From Wordnik.com. Reference
And then he started to sound kind of curmudgeonly. From Wordnik.com. [Today in Local Sports Coverage: Old-People Reaction Quotes] Reference
I feel so quaint, so old-fashioned, so curmudgeonly. From Wordnik.com. [The College Insider: Admissions Freak-Out #15: Fall Into the Gap (Year), But Check the Price-Tag First] Reference
Call me curmudgeonly, but I just want email from Gmail. From Wordnik.com. [Gmail To Offer Friend Updates?] Reference
I so very rarely come across a curmudgeonly centenarian. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2003] Reference
I've so very rarely come across a curmudgeonly centenarian. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2003] Reference
He seems lost much of the time, and confused, and curmudgeonly. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie Van Ostrand: Why I'm Voting for Barack Obama] Reference
This brings me -- and sorry to sound curmudgeonly -- to France. From Wordnik.com. [New York's Ear-Splitting Restaurants] Reference
It's getting harder these days to be cranky, to stay curmudgeonly. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Heller: The Audacity of Hopelessness] Reference
Now, finally, I'm going to shed my curmudgeonly prejudice for print. From Wordnik.com. [They Love Me, They Love Me Not] Reference
His sparring partner is the curmudgeonly but wise old Santa Fe sheriff. From Wordnik.com. [Atom-Powered Murder Mystery] Reference
He wasn't curmudgeonly, but he certainly came across as slightly crazy. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews - Unreadable.....] Reference
"" The taste level is very low, '' says the curmudgeonly Beene of the magazine. From Wordnik.com. [She's Still In Vogue] Reference
So I am breaking out of my curmudgeonly mode and offering up a belated valentine. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: A Few of My Favorite Basketball Things] Reference
But like McCain, he was regularly depicted as curmudgeonly and an ineloquent speaker. From Wordnik.com. [Tricia Romano: Note To Convention-Bound Obama: Mark Green Lost To Bloomberg] Reference
Even though he tried to correct his curmudgeonly reputation tonight, he was unconvincing. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Jong: Is John McCain Really Our Friend?] Reference
‘He was – and a more difficult, curmudgeonly, cheese-paring old party I’ve yet to find. From Wordnik.com. [My Bones Will Keep]
Frank, are you none other than the 'historical' equally curmudgeonly and fictitious DanLiddy?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The problem is not the oft-repeated curmudgeonly line that "No one makes any good music anymore.". From Wordnik.com. [Shawn Amos: Rock 'n' Roll's Long Good-bye] Reference
Frankly, I doubt the veracity of the implied 'friendship' with the notoriously curmudgeonly Fisk. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I have to say John, I know this is going to sound rather curmudgeonly, that doesn't look very safe. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2007] Reference
Sportswriters, typically the most curmudgeonly house in the Fourth Estate, range from concerned to blase. From Wordnik.com. [Athens 2004: Trained For The Games] Reference
Such curmudgeonly thinking was robbing me of the pleasurable experiences I'd once had while living abroad. From Wordnik.com. [Domesticity Never Looked So Exciting] Reference
At 60, he has the same curmudgeonly commitment to his oeuvre and his persona that he once observed in Crawford. From Wordnik.com. [A Condom For Your Couch? Carleton Varney On Mrs. Clean] Reference
I will admit though, as curmudgeonly as I remained throughout Monday's show, I did get one moment of unguarded delight. From Wordnik.com. [The Meritocracy of Desire] Reference
It's a simple story, which Eastwood produced and directed as well, about a curmudgeonly old man, who has just lost his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Russnow: Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino: Who Knew He Could Act? Like John Wayne in True Grit, it May Lead to an Oscar] Reference
I nodded, but she and I both knew the history of this thing, and of curmudgeonly stubborn men who live by their own devices. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
LARRY SUMMERS LEAVING WHITE HOUSE IN NOVEMBER - That's all she mumbled for the administration's most curmudgeonly senior aide. From Wordnik.com. [HUFFPOST HILL - SEPTEMBER 21ST, 2010] Reference
"He was a curmudgeonly prescriptivist," said Robert MacNeil, a friend and colleague at NBC News in Paris and New York in the 1960s. From Wordnik.com. [NBC News Correspondent Was Tart-Tongued Grammar Guru] Reference
The very fine Mixing It team knows better than to be fazed by such curmudgeonly antics, and they know how to persevere to get gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference
Later, he was attacked for his affable approach by curmudgeonly, bitter Alfred Kazin who implied that Updike was merely making a pass. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Jong: J.U. and I] Reference
No advertising, little in the way of promotional work, and a loathing of the music press, for which Smith fosters a curmudgeonly menace. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews] Reference
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