crotchety , also: crochety

How can we fail to love that crotchety old man?

The old woman had got very crotchety since being warmed up.

We all get crotchety and at times a little prickly.

My favorite so far is one of the crotchety professors.

Better get that "crotchety" grandma on the phone and ask her how she did it.

But is the crotchety cynicism we feel toward government justified?

He was a crotchety old fellow in the primary stage of drink.

He waited several hours in that cold air, and his discomfort made him crotchety.

Somewhat crotchety, Marlene lost her husband to cancer many years earlier.

"Just about everyone else thinks he's a crotchety old coot."

We will suppose that the crotchety old gentleman arrives first.

His personality is that of a crotchety old man.

"Blaming me for the orders of my crotchety old aunt!"

But each year, following the death of his son in the War, he grew more and more crotchety.

He struck me immediately as a crotchety old fogey of 51.

Bradley was crotchety on several occasions during recent campaign trips, usually with the local press.

James Laurence is a crotchety old fellow and not to be depended on.

I remember her as a crotchety old lady who walked with a cane."

Rather than sound like a crotchety old man, Malone has decided on another way to cope with his dissatisfaction.

His voice, I might add, was rather repulsive, like that of a crotchety witch.

But he couldn't call off the mission because of one crotchety nacelle.

Their father had been irascible all his life, and miserably crotchety toward the end.

I'm just being an old crotchety grandfather, that's all.

I'm afraid our crotchety laboratory director discovered my undercover effort this morning.

The phone was answered by a crotchety sergeant on the graveyard shift.