sourpuss

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  • Call me a pessimistic sourpuss, but let's face it, we regularly don't achieve our New Year's resolutions. —  Blog updates
  • Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Andrew Keen; a cyber-sourpuss who thinks the whole world is going to hell and that the Internet is to blame. —  The Technology Liberation Front
  • He sounds like a sourpuss Newcomer whose complaints are no different than those of the hippie Oldtimers that he slams. —  The Texas Observer: In the Current Issue
  • Jean … you are such a sourpuss, cynic and you don't really READ what I write —  WordPress.com News
  • Most (but not all) Democrats viewed them as the sourpuss complaints of an embittered minority. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
 

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