How to Use crotchety in a Sentence
crotchety
adjective
- None of the students dared to talk back to the crotchety old teacher.
- I get crotchety after a long day at work.
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Meanwhile, there was a crotchety old man in the same building who was fed up with the noise that the hotel was causing.
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Todd Plummer,
Vogue,
19 June 2017
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Of the four or six people two of them should be crotchety accountants who wear green eyeshades and binders on their sleeves.
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Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
9 Mar. 2017
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Though the group is immersed in good works, its name summons visions of crotchety vets nursing beers in linoleum-floored posts.
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Michael M. Phillips,
WSJ,
26 Sep. 2017
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Beal — by then a crotchety town character — would be known to loudly declare, often while shirtless.
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Julia Wick,
Los Angeles Times,
21 July 2019
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Beal — by then a crotchety town character — would be known to loudly declare, often while shirtless.
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Julia Wick,
Los Angeles Times,
21 July 2019
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And a crotchety old skirt-chasing white guy who has been elected to office once as a Republican and precisely zero times as a Democrat?
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Kevin D. Williamson,
National Review,
5 Dec. 2019
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The unflappable Luke Skywalker, formerly a shimmering, golden Jedi, has become an aged, crotchety beard-o who drinks green sludge from the teat of a space aardvark.
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Steve Heisler,
Chicago Reader,
4 May 2018
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The island is home to a bunch of adorable chubby birds known as porgs, as well as creaky nunlike characters who maintain, with crotchety strictness, the cavelike structures that hold all those ancient Jedi secrets.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Dec. 2017
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Maisie hears about a gold rush just outside a town, and decides to go into business with ta family of poor prospectors and a crotchety ranch owner who may be unknowingly sitting on a valuable vein of gold.
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Los Angeles Times,
11 Aug. 2019
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Bernie Sanders seemed not as interesting as last cycle, more crotchety and irritable.
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Peggy Noonan,
WSJ,
28 June 2019
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Perhaps no one should have expected anything less from the 81-year-old senator, who can be crotchety and cantankerous but is also seen by many, both in and out of politics, as an American hero, flaws and all.
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CBS News,
12 May 2018
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In a household where the only females are of the canine persuasion, Rachel soon becomes de facto hostess, charming even the crotchety old servant Seecombe (a scene-stealing Tim Barlow), who had dreaded her arrival.
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Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
2 June 2017
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This may be precisely the way crafty, crotchety Anne Lamott would operate, especially in these divisive times.
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Ann Bauer,
The Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2017
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Warren, these Democrats believe, was a more appealing outsider candidate than the perennially crotchety Bernie Sanders.
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Douglas Perry,
OregonLive.com,
2 June 2017
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The story follows standard conventions: The crotchety vets are reluctant to share, yet the youngster persists and discovers a story both heartbreaking and inspiring.
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Tayari Jones,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2017
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But Harrison's ticket to the White House was an anti-Harrison editorial that derided him as a crotchety old soldier drinking hard cider in a log cabin.
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CBS News,
12 June 2012
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On this same day 40 years ago, a crotchety correspondent named Harry Reasoner, the anchorman at my network, ended our evening newscast with a commentary about the national pastime.
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Greg Dobbs,
The Denver Post,
2 Apr. 2017
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But remember, again, that baseball exists for fun, and twisting yourself into crotchety knots over anything as trifling as baseball is a pointless exercise sure to tarnish the enjoyment of something simple and silly and joyful and pure.
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Ted Berg,
USA TODAY,
15 Oct. 2017
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Jim Carrey plays the infamously crotchety titular creature with the polar opposite of holiday cheer.
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Gabe Cohn,
New York Times,
23 Dec. 2017
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