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  • adjective superlative form of grouchy: most grouchy.

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Examples

  • Indeed, twice as often, such comments are directed at the justices themselves--even the bon mots tossed from Justice Antonin Scalia, identified in the new study as both the funniest and grouchiest of the nine.

    Supreme Court justices are not laughing at you. They're laughing with you. Robert Barnes 2011

  • WASHINGTON The Borowitz Report - Preparing for what most political insiders agree is their most important performance of the year, congressional Republicans have spent the past week rehearsing their grouchiest facial expressions for Tuesday's State of the Union Address.

    Andy Borowitz: Republicans Rehearsing Grouchy Facial Expressions for State of the Union Andy Borowitz 2011

  • Indeed, twice as often, such comments are directed at the justices themselves--even the bon mots tossed from Justice Antonin Scalia, identified in the new study as both the funniest and grouchiest of the nine.

    Supreme Court justices are not laughing at you. They're laughing with you. Robert Barnes 2011

  • Even though Sharkey could be the grouchiest man on earth at times, I was beginning to warm up to him.

    BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007

  • Even though Sharkey could be the grouchiest man on earth at times, I was beginning to warm up to him.

    BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007

  • Even though Sharkey could be the grouchiest man on earth at times, I was beginning to warm up to him.

    BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007

  • Even though Sharkey could be the grouchiest man on earth at times, I was beginning to warm up to him.

    BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007

  • The owner's name was Silas Whimple and he was the grouchiest, most miserly man in the county.

    The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) Scott Nearing 1933

  • I'll say now that I was the lonesomest, grouchiest, sorest man in the whole A.E.F. It seemed to me about then that being a private was the meanest, lowest, most no-account job on earth, and I was darned near deserting and letting the Germans win the war and be hanged.

    Helen of the Old House Harold Bell Wright 1908

  • Even the grouchiest bear has to acknowledge that Ford and GM are no longer the sad sacks they once were.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed IAN McGUGAN 2011

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