How to Use curmudgeon in a Sentence

curmudgeon

noun
  • The result should put a smile on the faces of even the dourest of curmudgeons.
    Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Even a stuck-in-her-ways curmudgeon like me can get on board with adding that gem to my routine.
    Erin Flaherty, Marie Claire, 15 Jan. 2018
  • But his views on the tech industry are those of a curmudgeon.
    Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic, 25 July 2019
  • Things that get better with age: wine, cheese and Marc Maron’s curmudgeon act.
    Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Either way, the news media loves those stories of the great hero that is dashed to earth by the little curmudgeon.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The side macro keys are a pain, though, and the curmudgeon in me would rather disable them than learn to move the keyboard from its bottom or right side.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 18 Feb. 2023
  • In the show, he’s played by Ray Romano as more of a tender-hearted schlub than a true-blue curmudgeon.
    Kate Knibbs, Wired, 4 May 2021
  • My knee-jerk reaction was to be a curmudgeon and say all of them except high school.
    Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024
  • The whole book is a complex ode to love and caring for your fellow human, but from a crusty, cursing curmudgeon of the best sort.
    Dan Carsen, al, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Goodstein can be a curmudgeon, and one of the pleasures of reading his books is to come across his personal views.
    Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2017
  • And, behind closed doors, not exactly the gruff curmudgeon who presents after his team drops a game (or even wins).
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Harold Bornstein has the visage of an aged hippie and the demeanor of one of history's great curmudgeons.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 2 May 2018
  • That’s a real turn of events for this endearing curmudgeon.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The film follows Otto, an older man who has become a curmudgeon upon the loss of his wife from cancer.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 13 Jan. 2023
  • 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, 26 June 2018
  • His influence can also be seen in the long line of lovable curmudgeon bosses who’ve graced sitcom screens in the years since Mary Tyler Moore.
    Sarah Todd, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2021
  • 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, 24 June 2019
  • But Hank is the type of lovable curmudgeon that some viewers relate to so deeply that his mere involvement can create genuine stakes.
    Joshua Alston, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
  • When put into real-life practice, the phrase can do remarkable things to change even the staunchest winter curmudgeon’s mood.
    Vogue, 12 Nov. 2018
  • Charles Grodin, the urbane actor who made his roles as a curmudgeon seem cool, died Tuesday at his home in Connecticut of bone marrow cancer.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021
  • Philip was known equally as a curmudgeon and a charmer who could quickly put nervous guests at ease with an easy (and sometimes outrageous) one-liner.
    Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Was Jeff – our curmudgeon who spent his free time reading Civil War tomes – taking selfies in the hospital?
    Leo Dominguez, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • So, is Virgin River setting us up to say goodbye to our favorite curmudgeon?
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Press accounts called him everything from a millionaire curmudgeon to a civic saint.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2022
  • In addition to being a curmudgeon, Otto is a man in great emotional pain.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Johnson, beloved for playing New Girl‘s secretly kind curmudgeon Nick Miller, was pretty much made for his role.
    Judy Berman, Time, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Even the crustiest curmudgeon couldn't argue about mothers and brothers not dying.
    Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 24 May 2020
  • Marsh is widely respected in Britain but is sometimes described in news stories as a curmudgeon.
    Christina Ianzito, Philly.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • This is only natural for a curmudgeon of my caliber; to mature is to make enemies.
    Jason Kehe, Wired, 20 Oct. 2020
  • That also means curmudgeons over 45 have a new generation to target in terrible think pieces about why the country is going to hell.
    cleveland, 7 Oct. 2019

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