curmudgeon
IPA: kɝmˈʌdʒɪn
noun
- An ill-tempered person full of stubborn ideas or opinions.
- (archaic) A miser.
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Examples of "curmudgeon" in Sentences
- The man was a nasty curmudgeon.
- The nominated article is Curmudgeon.
- McBride is a curmudgeon with a heart of gold.
- Apparently I'm just a title curmudgeon this morning :
- She finally called him a curmudgeon and then cut him off.
- The mean and nasty curmudgeon I am, I go to google and enter.
- Sorry to be a curmudgeon, but it's better to be warned, I guess.
- I'm a bit of a curmudgeon when it comes to the citation templates.
- Curmudgeons were especially welcomed to apply, and indeed they did.
- I'm finishing up my PhD and will soon be a nasty curmudgeon of a professor.
- For now I've added the description of Marber as a curmudgeon, as compromise.
- But the important thing for this jaded curmudgeon is that I am no longer an Art Show virgin.
- Hawkowl, I would gladly accede to the label curmudgeon, but I'll never be a snarkling, and I don't do groveling.
- The chief and best-known one is the explanation of the word curmudgeon -- "from the French coeur, unknown, and mechant, a correspondent."
- Whiteside, who gives new meaning to the word curmudgeon, takes over the living room and all sorts of celebrities show up to wish the famous man a joyful holiday.
- Geri - not to detract from this overall thread - but please continue to post wherever you feel your comment needs to go - do not be deterred by one "curmudgeon" - I for one miss you posts. jerezano
- Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence.
- As for chatty passenger/neighbors, my experience as professional grump and curmudgeon is never get started with such folks in the pro-flight phase because if you do, they don’t let up and they are led to believe that you actually want to talk and find them engaging — as if if they are doing you a favor by keeping you busy and informed about their life.
- This image of Bloom as traditionalist curmudgeon is considerably at odds with the impression one might have gotten from his critical writings of the 1970s and 1980s, in which Bloom advances his own intricate (if ultimately rather private, even hermetic) theory of literary production and reception that does indeed focus on poetic greatness but hardly defends tradition for tradition's sake.
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