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curmudgeon
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  • In fifty years I would be seventy-four, an old curmudgeon with a hairless, toothless head; the geriatric remnant of the forties, whose blood had dried, whose youth had withered, whose dreams had died like the grasses and washed out on a spring tide.†  (source)
  • Kerry the atheist curmudgeon, who hated how commercialized Christmas had become and so threw an annual Merry Anti-Christmas Celebration at the club, where he held a contest for which band could play the most distorted versions of Christmas carols.†  (source)
  • Luma has even become friendly with Emanuel Ransom, the town curmudgeon, bonding over their shared admiration of Hillary Clinton.†  (source)
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  • 'I'm sure she's an old curmudgeon.†  (source)
  • I may carp about feeling cornered by Nathaniel, as is my right as a curmudgeonly columnist, but there's nothing boring about the adventure I'm on.†  (source)
  • Curmudgeons, sadists ....†  (source)
  • the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying Mademoiselle Clutch-penny.†  (source)
  • It also took me that long to understand what Jeb was up to, what the motivation was behind his switch from the courteous host to the curmudgeonly taskmaster.†  (source)
  • There were some old curmudgeons on the faculty—and some young fuddy-duddies, too—who objected to Owen's style; and I don't mean that they objected only to his outrageous capitalization.†  (source)
  • The Vicar himself seemed to wear rather a changed aspect, as most men do when acquaintances made elsewhere see them for the first time in their own homes; some indeed showing like an actor of genial parts disadvantageously cast for the curmudgeon in a new piece.†  (source)
  • They were like curmudgeonly old friends who would never admit that they liked me yet came round to see me all the time.†  (source)
  • No, I'll buy the gayest gown I can get, and dance over the old curmudgeon's grave in it.†  (source)
  • The reporters assumed that Smith was just being curmudgeonly, but there was likely more to it than that.†  (source)
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