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  • noun Plural form of grinch.

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Examples

  • Sticking to the wilderness is no guarantee of safety, as I hear "grinches" are now roaming the Alterac Mountains.

    The days grow larger, and the year keeps shrinking. matociquala 2008

  • The local postal workers used to give cookies to the dogs until the grinches stepped in.

    Dog urine causes cancer not pesticides? The Nag 2009

  • The credit markets remain frozen, and these banking grinches are stealing Christmas by further cutting individuals' credit lines.

    Robert Scheer: Will Obama Stay the Course? Robert Scheer 2010

  • The credit markets remain frozen, and these banking grinches are stealing Christmas by further cutting individuals 'credit lines.

    Robert Scheer: Will Obama Stay the Course? 2010

  • "There are many other tech companies besides Apple that aren't grinches," she told HuffPost.

    Donations By iPhone? There's No App For That Laura Bassett 2010

  • Obama submitted a draft that began, "All the Whos down in Whoville loved freedom a lot, but the grinches who lived in Washington did not!"

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • You don't cry over spilt milk and you don't weep over a Florida International University head coach who sees his Knicks moonlighting gig torpedoed by grinches at the NBA who had the audacity to consider the ethical murkiness of his strange, job-splitting arrangement.

    Isiah Goes Hither, The Knicks Go Yon 2010

  • I have plaintive request and a few grinches for people who are celebrating this holiday with trick-or-treating-age people.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2008

  • The credit markets remain frozen, and these banking grinches are stealing Christmas by further cutting individuals 'credit lines.

    Will Obama Stay the Course? 2010

  • Obama submitted a draft that began, "All the Whos down in Whoville loved freedom a lot, but the grinches who lived in Washington did not!"

    The Chicago Seven and a Half Men 2008

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