How to Use grump in a Sentence

grump

noun

• Our neighbor is an old grump.
• Go ahead and give in to the inner grump this Valentine’s Day.
  — Allison Hope, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
• There are good reasons for Houston to come off as a grump.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• Ressler tries to stall, but Nigel just takes off his suit jacket while a guard zip ties on our favorite FBI grump.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• But what Perelman offers us at his best is not a parody of a time gone by, or the notebooks of a grump.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2021
• Anyway, a few grumps are quibbling that there wasn't enough action, or advancing of the plot.
  — Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 17 July 2017
• Yet, as long as price levels remind people each week of price pain that has the power to sustain their grump.
  — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2021
• The Captain is the alter ego of the kids’ school principal, a real grump named Krupp (Ed Helms) who can’t stand laughter or those boys.
  — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 1 June 2017
• However, George did join William and Kate on their tour of Australia in 2014 and was the grumpiest grump that ever grumped.
  — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 24 June 2019
• Olivia Colman is just a sort of constant grump, garnished with the occasional fury.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• The occasional flash of fun in the film comes only when a character actor drops in on Chalamet and his band of grumps with a more vibrant take on the script.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2019
• Oscar-winner Simmons plays Frawley to perfection, allowing just a glimpse of the heart that lies beneath the grump.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
• And YassifyBot, a Twitter account that often goes viral, gave the world a dirty blond, wrinkle-free, femme version of the Christmas grump.
  — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
• Sitting in an office, thumbing through pictures of someone mountain biking in the Alps is a surefire way to ignite your inner grump.
  — Ac Shilton, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2018
• Hanks will play the curmudgeonly man who seems like the neighborhood grump, but starts to open up to other humans after a couple with two young daughters moves in next door.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 31 Aug. 2022
• Just about every family seems to have at least one grump whose politics differ from everybody else’s around the table, and the rancor seems to have become more heated in the Trump era.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 27 Oct. 2020
• Just about every family seems to have at least one grump whose politics differ from everybody else's around the table, and the rancor seems to have become more heated in the Trump era.
  — Clarence Page Chicago Tribune (tns), Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
• Even the hyper-opinionated grump David Embury can’t fully disabuse himself of the Zombie’s charms.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2022
• The ranking comes from the number of one- and two-star ratings proportional to the population, plus a few other calculations on the grump-o-meter.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• Conversely, the series' first two episodes flounder with Kate as a one-dimensional grump who shrugs her shoulders at some of the series' bigger logical leaps.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2019
• Hanks plays Otto Anderson, a grump who falls into a depression after his wife dies.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
• More importantly, former grump/future husband Phillip (Chris Geere) looks at Kate in a way that will probably start to become more familiar this year.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2021
• But, at its core, Eighty-Sixed is really a show about … nothing, and the most appealing thing about it is watching David play a caricature of herself: a difficult — but somehow kind of winning — grump.
  — Alexis Swerdloff, The Cut, 23 July 2017
• Like me, Twitter realized that Prince Louis and his early-afternoon grump must be a spiritual soulmate.
  — The Editors, Marie Claire, 8 June 2019
• What audiences respond to in them is the interplay of Adam Sandler, as a grump with a chip on his shoulder but an even larger sense of loyalty, and Jennifer Aniston, as a sweetheart who is done being life’s second banana.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
• Part Terminator and part jacked-up, middle-age grump, Cable carries a teddy bear and a mean streak from his dystopian far-flung future, creating a deadly adversary for Deadpool.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 May 2018
• But Gohan can always count on Piccolo, his intimidating grump of a mentor, to not only push him toward reaching his full potential as a warrior but also give him lessons on being a good dad.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• No list of Christmas movies is truly complete without an appearance from the Grinch, and this animated version deserves a place in the holiday movie canon, thanks to Benedict Cumberbatch's memorable take on everyone's favorite green holiday grump.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2022
• The biggest grump of his generation is also its most charismatic singer and lyricist, a walking contradiction beloved and embraced by generations of Southern Californians — and tolerated, if that, by meat eaters and immigrant-rights activists.
  — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• Our neighbor is an old grump.

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024