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• 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.

• crankiness
• crotchetiness
• contrariness

News & Articles

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• What to watch: Broncos-49ers
  The Broncos have given the requisite it-will-be-good-to-hit-somebody-else nuggets this week as the usual on-field grumpiness that comes with the third week of training camp has arrived. But as they head into tonight's preseason opener in San Francisco here are a few things of note: Position battles The most heated in a starting lineup that is already largely spoken for are at running back ...
  Aug. 8, 2013 - ESPN Blogs

Quotes

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• Phil Vickery in Stuff.co.nz
  We'll look back on this two or three years from now, we'll say this was the year that this was resolved - not without some grumpiness, you know, some difficulty, but we will have resolved it and we can move on to the more important issues, quite... Jim Flaherty http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Flaherty&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGVRp6_o3FeJwgoHTsZUE8FyA3qoQ 940 News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.940news.com/nouvelles.php%3Fcat%3D23%26id%3D61955&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF0r86YVhVjnB485jZW_qWOeRUT5Q Jun 19, 2006 44152 60425 grumpiness We all have to buy into what we're doing," said Vickery, a key figure in the win in Sydney four years ago. "The ultimate success of the '03 team was just through sheer grumpiness of a group of players who just refused to give up, and ground...
• Hal Holbrook in Los Angeles Times
  Abner has a code of honor and a code of behavior, which has been violated and has made him angry,Holbrook explains. "The side you see of the man in the film is mostly a man filled with anger and grumpiness. He's on a mission of survival."