grouchiness

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• On The Mary Tyler Moore Show and, later, Lou Grant, his character formed the prototype for future pop-culture depictions of the grouchy boss with a heart of gold.

• I find Perelman irresistibly funny in his grouchy misanthropic way.

• With her short gray hair and no-nonsense glare, Lykos was notoriously grouchy with the gavel.

• This post admirably suited Grouchy, who was a horseman by nature and a cavalry soldier by instinct.

• At Moskowa his cuirassiers, sabre in hand, drove the Russians out of the great redoubt, but Grouchy himself was seriously wounded.

• Unfortunately, the Duke refused the opportunity to escape which was offered him, and Grouchy had to make him a prisoner.

• He had an ingrowing toe nail, which sometimes made him grouchy and sour, so he was dubbed Pickles.

• Before this, Marshal Grouchy had likewise expired in his eighty-first year.