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  • adjective comparative form of grouchy: more grouchy

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Examples

  • "She's given up coffee, so she's even grouchier than usual and she's frustrated that her activities on the job are limited," McCormack says, before adding that Shannon could make a pretty good, if unconventional, mom.

    Mary McCormack Puts Her Pregnancy In Plain Sight 2011

  • "She's given up coffee, so she's even grouchier than usual and she's frustrated that her activities on the job are limited," McCormack says, before adding that Shannon could make a pretty good, if unconventional, mom.

    Mary McCormack Puts Her Pregnancy In Plain Sight 2011

  • In grouchier moods I considered speaking with them about preaching, choirs, and possible relocation to suburban Ohio.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • Meantime, he or she falls asleep in class, claims to be too tired to do homework, and seems to get grouchier each day.

    Sleeping in may help teens’ school performance 2010

  • In grouchier moods I considered speaking with them about preaching, choirs, and possible relocation to suburban Ohio.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • In my grouchier moments I feel that only those who grow some of their own food should write about food production.

    Greens living in ivory towers now want to farm them too 2010

  • In grouchier moods I considered speaking with them about preaching, choirs, and possible relocation to suburban Ohio.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • Meantime, he or she falls asleep in class, claims to be too tired to do homework, and seems to get grouchier each day.

    Sleeping in may help teens’ school performance 2010

  • In grouchier moods I considered speaking with them about preaching, choirs, and possible relocation to suburban Ohio.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • An hour or so later, when they showed up, my sister was even grouchier.

    Or It Could Just Be the Sleeping Pill Susan Palwick 2007

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