crotchety

How To Use crotchety In A Sentence

• Now, I'm supposed to be pithy in this column, full of cute and snide comments about my Midwestern family, how they don't get it, how they're getting old and crotchety.
• I was feeling miserable and crotchety and on the point of collapse.
• In his early 40s, he was prematurely crotchety.
• Most recently, Boyle was known as the crotchety father on the television comedy series Everybody loves Raymond. Archive 2006-12-01
• But the actor, best known as crotchety one-legged pensioner Winston from Still Game, is delighted to have come through the eventful season with what he believes is a fantastic second series of his hit sitcom. The Daily Record - Home
• Lord Furnival is getting a little crotchety over my dilatory ways. PASSION IN THE PEAK
• Now, at almost 60, she has grown into a crotchety, cantankerous old woman who, nonetheless, has a deeply sensitive underside and a great affection for the children she minds.
• Amy has a lurcher, who I've looked after on occasion, and she takes my crotchety terrier.
• The crotchety and the crooked have their vulnerabilities and kindnesses, and no-one is wholly good or bad.
• The three women are, respectively, crotchety old lady, hothead cynic, and frustrated, overachieving go-between.