grumpiness
- n a fussy and eccentric disposition
- Rather, they carry the luggage and provisions, with a mixture of grace and grumpiness, while you trek alongside.
- While other polls are not so dire for Labour, its canvassers are greeted with enough grumpiness to worry that millions of their backers will stay home.
- Ordinary grumpiness has been marginalized by blatant moodism, symptomized, pathologized, made to seem like a bad thing.