GRUMPY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for GRUMPY, such as:

1. But I come, with grumpy obstinacy.
2. A lack of sleep can make kids grumpy is hardly news.
3. I hadn't had enough sleep and was feeling a bit grumpy.
4. I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years.
5. I like to have you tell me my faults and be sisterly, so don't mind if I am grumpy sometimes.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRUMPY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grumpy
 a.  unhappy or irritable, particularly applied to babies and children or adults who are acting childishly
Classic Sentence:
1  Hannah never forgot to make them, no matter how busy or grumpy she might be, for the walk was long and bleak.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
2  I like to have you tell me my faults and be sisterly, so don't mind if I am grumpy sometimes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
3  But I come, with grumpy obstinacy.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
5  And despite his self-confidence and grumpy German sarcasm he was pitiable, with his hair smoothly brushed on the temples and sticking up in tufts behind.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  A lack of sleep can make kids grumpy is hardly news.
2  I hadn't had enough sleep and was feeling a bit grumpy.