| 单词 | crotchety |
| 例句 | That even if his father hadn’t taught him himself, some crotchety old nanny had waxed poetic on the value of tucking your shirt in, polishing your shoes, and combing your hair. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z My beautiful, sweet brother who shooed bugs out of the house instead of stepping on them, who gave his little ruler to splint a crotchety old man’s leg. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He was a crotchety old grandfather and not at all accountable for how he came out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The voices more crotchety than angry, but loud. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z By this time the truck was little more than four wheels and an engine and the engine was so crotchety and sullen and senile that it required expert care and consideration. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Taylor is perfectly earnest, and Martin is perfectly crotchety, and Abby is so lively and funny that it’s almost like our conversation in the dressing room never happened. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Jorge had one blind askew eye and poor vision in the other, he was bald, limping noticeably, haggard and frail and crotchety. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “The old, crotchety boot I know so well?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Instead, there was the blithe unselfconciousness of some crotchety old Veteran of Foreign Wars—married for years, father of multitudes—who finds the topic infinitely repugnant and amusing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the crotchety old passenger let himself into the backseat and put his walking stick across his legs. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Is she really going to devote fifty hours of her life to a crotchety dowager in a drafty attic, going through boxes filled with moths and dust mites and who knows what else? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The fifth was answered by a crotchety woman who said, “I don’t know any sergeants!” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z She was as crotchety and sullen as a three-legged mule, and I was not quite sure why. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The crotchety townspeople who are distrustful of colorful outsiders? "Larger than life, but still true": Where Pee-wee Herman fits in the history of American clowns 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z If I’m not feeling well and feeling quite crotchety, I’m going to be that way wherever I am. Octavia Spencer: ‘My first kiss was magical’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z On the contrary, it turns out that these sour, crotchety guys are best savored in large doses. Review: In ‘Oh Hello,’ Sour and Crotchety Old Men at Their Best 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z An uncle named Trevor Cooper plays one of the village’s crotchety oddballs. Drama Meets Tedium and a British Sitcom is Born 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z He was Burt Reynolds’ crotchety father-in-law in the 1990s TV series “Evening Shade.” Hal Holbrook, prolific actor who played Twain, dies at 95 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Either Olive is the most amenable adolescent on the planet or the ones in my orbit are just unusually crotchety. Learning to Heal, With a Little Fur Machine 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z "After the Fall" is a rambling book, less a coherent argument than an assemblage of current events, history, keen insights, crotchety opinions and musings on where to find the best Turkish food in Berlin. 'After the Fall': Europe's economy falls from grace 2012-02-08T22:16:03Z When a New Best Friend Hits the Ground Whirring In American movies, old people tend to be cute or crotchety, though sometimes they’re both. Movie Review: Frank Langella in ‘Robot & Frank’ 2012-08-17T15:03:02Z "They don't want someone like me being old and crotchety and demanding final cut." Toronto closes after very public festival 2012-09-13T10:22:04Z Bean enlivened such TV game shows as “To Tell the Truth” and played a crotchety merchant on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.” Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z It’s a good development, giving Mr. Whately something to play besides crotchety but sneakily hip old age, and it livens up the mysteries, which are as hard to follow and as campily gothic as ever. Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The following year he created one of his most indelible portraits, the crotchety octogenarian judge in Joanna McClelland Glass' "Trying" at the Colony Theatre. Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z “Record Store” will be “the opposite of an old, crotchety, ‘things-were-better,’ dusty book about vinyl,” he added. Jack Antonoff Tracks the Glory Days of the CD in a Coming Book 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Rep. Thomas Stanton, chairman of a House Intelligence Committee, is a crotchety Southerner — crotchety is all he is — who is one of three people marked for assassination by the Falcon. Surprise! Newt Gingrich’s thriller ‘Treason’ features a bumbling female president 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z There was part of me I had held back, miserly and secretive and inscrutable, like some crotchety, lonely character in a Dickens novel. Someone to hold me 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z In Trouble with the Curve, she plays the estranged daughter of crotchety baseball scout Clint Eastwood, who tags along on his scouting tour when his eyesight starts to go, and tries to repair their relationship. Amy Adams: 'David O Russell said to me: "You are so not the princess type"' 2012-11-22T18:21:30Z Moreover, the Academy seems to have begun a process of transforming its rather crotchety membership into a voter pool that actually reflects the modern world of film. Does Interstellar pack the payload to launch Chris Nolan into Oscars orbit? 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z When their beloved, and incontinent, German shepherd has to clean up her act or face eviction by the family’s crotchety landlord, the siblings seek to keep intact what little family they have. Finding the Comedy in Tween Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z But befitting his trademark crotchety nature, he voiced one parting complaint: He doesn't like being famous, nor does he like being bothered by fans. Andy Rooney ends '60 Minutes' run of 33 years 2011-10-03T00:46:18Z The show, which at six half-hour episodes does not overstay its welcome, is like an apprenticeship with a crotchety bohemian Yoda. Review: ‘Painting With John’ Teaches the Art of Living 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Three supernumeraries — usually crotchety servants, sometimes brooding henchmen — undercut nobility in scene after scene. Music Review: Mozart, Puccini, Handel and Copland at Glimmerglass 2010-08-09T22:43:00Z Despite her diva tendencies, she is the well-loved adopted daughter of many of the townspeople and the one who keeps the crotchety Elsie connected to the town and everyone in it. 'Compass Rose': John Casey's sequel to the 'Spartina' story 2010-11-18T00:02:00Z Instead of berating the veteran’s missteps, the crotchety judge announced, “The one thing that’s always consistent … is our band and singer.” Dancing with the Stars, Season 13: And the Winner Is? 2011-11-23T13:45:02Z Logan is both a world-class grumbler with a crotchety disdain for what used to be called multiculturalism and a stiletto-sharp stylist with appealing allergies to cant and special pleading. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z A perky Betty White, guest starring as a crotchety librarian, got a touch up from a makeup artist. Television: Peculiar on and Off Set: Atticus Shaffer of ?The Middle? 2010-05-08T03:09:00Z Those who find David’s crotchety alter ego a depressing cultural icon for our times are already most of the way to the intended joke. Preeetty good. Larry’s back and still misanthropic after all these years 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z There was an elderly, crotchety mobster fiddling with his hearing aid and snarling “Liar!” at the parade of rats assembled to convict him, among them his own cousin, also an alleged participant in the robbery. Goodfellas may have gone but the gangster films remain 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z But beginning in “Late Night’s” later years, he developed — unless the right word is “curdled” — into the crotchety main attraction of an eccentric, ever more self-referential psychodrama. The Legacy of David Letterman, Icon of the Grizzled Generation 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z He can be didactic, a crotchety young fogy. Books of The Times: ‘Four New Messages,’ Stories by Joshua Cohen 2012-07-31T12:00:00Z Their crotchety friendship is nicely sketched, especially the way it has changed over the years to accommodate life experiences such as Ben-Roi's loss of his fiancée Galia in a bomb blast. Thrillers – review roundup 2012-07-20T21:54:02Z Whether you associate him with “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” on which he played a crotchety journalist, or with Pixar’s “Up” may depend on your date of birth. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Big Leap’ and ‘The Wonder Years’ 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Reviewing that production for The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote that “these sour, crotchety guys are best savored in large doses.” ‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’ Brings Kibitzers to Broadway 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z “Women can’t be ‘irascible’ or ‘crotchety,’ but there’s a subtle respect for those things in a man. Questions linger after Jill Abramson’s dismissal from Times He is notably crotchety about attempts to pigeonhole him as an observational film-maker, and is particularly irked by the idea of being considered a fly on the wall. Frederick Wiseman: ‘I’m not a fly on the wall. I’m at least 2% conscious’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Larry King and former Texas governor Ann Richards keep popping up to offer crotchety comic relief, like side characters in a Shakespearean play. Review | What was George W. Bush really like? A novelist whips up a campy portrait. 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Even her crotchety mom started giving her kudos, in her own special way. Tiffany Haddish: ‘My Career Is a Delicious Roasted Chicken’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Why don’t black women win Oscars for playing complex heroines or crotchety geniuses like their white male counterparts? Bamboozled: Spike Lee's masterpiece on race in America is as relevant as ever 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Si's crotchety manner seems to invite Ruby and any other canine to defy his every command. It's 'Duck Dynasty' season as A&E hit flies high 2013-03-05T15:04:08Z “Like us,” he said, “Aaron Burr is a crotchety, misunderstood New Yorker. And he has a gun. Like us — we have Bernie Goetz’s gun.” Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Kvetch Their Way to Broadway 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z This may be precisely the way crafty, crotchety Anne Lamott would operate, especially in these divisive times. ‘Hallelujah Anyway’: Anne Lamott’s conflicted message for a conflicted nation 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Bean enlivened such TV game shows as To Tell the Truth and played a crotchety merchant on Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. Veteran actor Orson Bean hit and killed by car in Los Angeles 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z A crotchety newcomer whose asides are like George Burns’ quips. ‘Jalopies’: A touching look at aging, resilience | Theater review 2013-01-14T21:36:27Z Through a slightly fantastical plot device, Ptolemy Grey slides back and forth between crotchety dementia and full, get-your-swagger-on capability. Review: The Graying of Samuel L. Jackson 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In the film, Art Carney plays a crotchety old man who, with his cat, Tonto, travels across an America populated by misfits, including his own children. Paul Mazursky, Director Who Captured a Changing America, Dies at 84 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z When the best picture field was expanded to 10 last year, “Up,” the adventure story about a crotchety old man and his young, balloon-toting charge, became a best picture contender. The Carpetbagger: Animation Advocacy, Pixar Style 2011-02-09T23:54:28Z Nobody wants to be near this crotchety, deformed old man any more. Internet memes that most deserve their own movie 2013-05-30T15:29:10Z Vindication for crotchety Gen-Xers — already depressed to find themselves the elders in this social relationship — arrived in a paper presented in May at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Boston. Studied: College Students Are Found to Have Less Empathy 2010-06-25T17:50:00Z In Season 2 of the Swedish series, by comparison, Mr. Henriksson’s Wallander is a crotchety but not entirely unhappy burgher, newly ensconced in a tidy house with a view of the sea. The Detective Kurt Wallander on DVD 2012-05-27T03:41:56Z The Grumpy Café may not sound like the friendliest place to grab a coffee but inside the large, warm meeting place in the centre of Hastings, the atmosphere is anything but crotchety. Rising tide of homelessness could bankrupt seaside town 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Flora grows more forlorn with her husband’s every crotchety reply. Review: Necessary verbal ruthlessness is in short supply in this rare Harold Pinter revival 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Actor Carroll O’Connor was just 47 when he began playing the crotchety Archie Bunker on TV’s “All in the Family” in 1971. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ and the inexorable rise of the aging action star 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z “Being known for being the crotchety old sports and weather guy was not on the list,” he said, “but it is what it is.” An Iowa Sports Reporter Was Sent to Cover the Weather. He Did Not Like It. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Old, unwritten rules, such as those that discourage exuberance on the field, are slowly being phased out of a crotchety collective conscience. Forever seeking a transcendent star, baseball already has one in Shohei Ohtani 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z “I feel like I’m back visiting an old grandmother. She’s crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn’t fall in love with her has no imagination.” BRITISH OPEN ’22: Famous quotes about St. Andrews 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z A crotchety retired professor, Serebryakov has returned with Elena, his stunningly beautiful and much younger second wife, throwing the household’s dull routine into chaos. Commentary: How Anton Chekhov became the playwright of the moment 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z In the commercial, which was broadcast near the end of the first half of Sunday’s game, the famously crotchety actor plays his skepticism for laughs by mocking humanity’s great innovations. Larry David Doesn’t Get Crypto. That’s Why He’s the Perfect Pitchman. 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z This season, the writers on “Succession” have been playing up the age-related debility and mental fogginess of their crotchety corporate monarch. The major miscalculation behind 'Succession's' unspectacular season 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z No N.F.L. personality sounds more like a crotchety uncle haggling at a used car dealership than Gettleman, but he appears to have struck a shrewd deal this time. What We Learned in the 2021 N.F.L. Draft 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z The witty actor and comedian who enlivened the game show “To Tell the Truth” and played a crotchety merchant on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.” Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z I presumed he was a crotchety old man with racist tendencies, after he berated me publicly for not wearing a mask as I strolled along a quiet street in our suburban Northridge neighborhood. Column: This suburban ‘mask cop’ in the San Fernando Valley is 81 and loud 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Pre-virus, on a sunny day like Friday, the cash register would have been crotchety and complaining from overuse, she said. Virginia relaxes restrictions outside D.C. suburbs, Maryland opened at 5 p.m.; virus cases in region surpass 72,000 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z On Feb. 18, Cami Neidigh said, Life Care called about her 90-year-old mother, Geneva Wood, whom she described as an “independent and crotchety and strong” Texan who was recovering from a stroke. The Coronavirus’s Rampage Through a Suburban Nursing Home 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Fitba: Interested in seeing what happened when a famously dour, occasionally belligerent, crotchety and temperamental Scotsman sat down to interview the manager of his national football team? Alisson injured for Liverpool, coronavirus updates and more – live! 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Bean enlivened such TV game shows as “To Tell the Truth” and played a crotchety merchant on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.” Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z The comic-strip moppet plays pranks on Mr. Wilson, the crotchety fellow who lives next door. Movies on TV this week: 'Silence of the Lambs' 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z In the pages of this new book, he writes with bemusement, as one who wears “the shroud of self” — though still succumbing to occasional crotchety bouts when accommodating the quirks of his hiking companion. With a new Northwest-set book, David Guterson meditates on uncertainty, time, primal fears 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z All the violence is, of course, played for laughs, which came often enough, during a recent preview screening, to make this crotchety critic wonder whether there was something wrong with him. Review | The movie ‘Ready or Not’ is either terrible or great fun (maybe both). Welcome to August. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Just a few months into his term, Swalwell — then 31 — launched an upstart bid to unseat 20-term Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, who was 80 at the time, increasingly crotchety and ripe for a political takedown. Eric Swalwell wants to be president, and why the heck not? 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z That’s because the Brown who rose from sixth-round pick to stardom, who added color to a crotchety old game with his personality, doesn’t seem to exist anymore. Perspective | Ego ruined Antonio Brown with the Steelers. Will it poison his trade value, too? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Debra Moore, managing editor of a string of newspapers in neighboring Plumas County, said that Russell comes across as a crotchety newsman but that he’s a sharp watchdog for the northern Sierra Nevada. Whether good news or bad, northern Sierra readers can always blame the Messenger 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Among younger workers, “the perception of the industry is that we’re old and crotchety,” said Todd Shock, vice president of data and analytics at the Indianapolis company. Who Wants to Be a Ninja? Job Titles Get a Rebranding 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z He is cast as merely the crotchety father of Lowbrow art, a rambunctious counterculture movement fostered by a sometimes-obnoxious rebel railing against the conformity of postwar America, an art later promoted by Juxtapoz magazine. Critic's Notebook: Why is the Petersen Museum ignoring Von Dutch’s racist past? - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z In this context, the acceptance of middle age becomes a feminist act, and the same seems to have been true for Lessing in 1973, whatever her crotchety scepticism about women’s lib. 'A different way of living': why writers are celebrating middle-age 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Then all the lawyers approached the bench to speak with the crotchety senior U.S. The Most Blissfully Trump- and Twitter-Free Place in America 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z They, too, found themselves jousting with the crotchety old owner, who wore a “Capitol Hill Books” hat and never failed to bemoan a customer’s too-large pack or too-limited vocabulary. ‘Chaotic glory’: Why four millennials bought a used bookstore on Capitol Hill 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z To bemoan the decline of neighborliness, the shrinking of the family and the diminishing role of religion may sound like the complaining of a crotchety old man. Opinion | Suicides Have Increased. Is This an Existential Crisis? 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Each side used age stereotypes, with varying degrees of cynicism – older women were crotchety or out of touch, younger women were egoists or spoiled children. How #MeToo revealed the central rift within feminism today 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z I thought he was a crotchety old fool then; now I realize he was a crotchety old genius. Perspective | The Tiger Effect, win probabilities and 21 more facts about the world of sports TV 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Now, this: a Winter Olympics hosted by an established economic force with a crotchety, antagonistic relative less than 50 miles away. Perspective | At the DMZ, Korean reunification seems an impossible task for these ‘Peace Olympics’ 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z That was the mantra of Gregory House, the brilliant and crotchety doctor played by Hugh Laurie on the TV show of the same name. Perspective | The crazy lengths some customers go to when they try to return fake merchandise 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Rather, he is a genial if crotchety fellow, so confident of his genius that he doesn’t have to shout about it. “All the Money in the World” is a technical masterstroke 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The old criticizing the young is one of our most enduring traditions, a crotchety inheritance passed down from generation to generation. Opinion | If the kids aren’t alright, blame the parents 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Galton wrote, “A man must be very crotchety or very ignorant, who nowadays seriously doubts the inheritance either of this or of any other faculty.” Opinion | What are our genes really telling us? The answer is far from clear 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Day 7: Maybe I’m getting crotchety in my old age, but “La La Land” seemed more realistic to me than “A Dog’s Purpose.” iPhones and global warming: Dispatches from a Siberian husky in the 45th Iditarod 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z He sounded croaky and crotchety, and I didn’t push him. Three days with The Dice Man: ‘I never wrote for money or fame' 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z If M.U.C.’s opponent made too many mistakes, it would get crotchety and print out a reprimand: “I refuse to waste any more time. Go and play with a human being.” Christopher Strachey’s Nineteen-Fifties Love Machine 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Other days, he comes across like Frank Costanza—George’s father on “Seinfeld”—a crotchety old guy from Queens railing at the world. Why Does Donald Trump Lash Out at Everybody? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z “What a variety of people called to be saints, crotchety, giddy, cranky ones, bibulous ones,” Ms. Day said presciently. Houses of the Holy, and of the Working Class 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The Celtics were the lone NBA holdout without a dance squad in 2006, and the longtime coach and general manager was famously crotchety about anything that took attention away from the game itself. Celtics, reach deal to put GE logo on uniform 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z I’m far from the first to notice Briggs’ temperamental resemblance to his crotchety fictional Father Christmas. Raymond Briggs: ‘There could be another world war. Terrifying, isn’t it?’ 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Temporally, Proxima b is our next-door neighbor, a contemporary compared with the crotchety galaxies several billion light-years away. An Exoplanet Too Far 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z One voter at a Donald Trump rally described her to The Washington Post’s Jenna Johnson last week as “an angry, crotchety old hag.” Hillary Clinton is a 68-year-old woman. And plenty of people hate her for it. 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z After all, they know that the true fans of "Full House," which ends tonight in a one-hour episode, were never crotchety TV critics or industry cynics. The pricey 'Full House' has fallen out of step as programmers look for hip, young viewers 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z He might be old, with the Larry David demeanour of a crotchety Jewish uncle, but he is a formidable speaker. I’ve felt the Bern. And Jeremy Corbyn, you’re no Senator Sanders | Jonathan Freedland 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z In an online tribute, he described her, with considerable affection, as a “crotchety, ginswilling, chain-smoking, off-colored prose perfectionist.” Florence King, acerbic conservative writer, dies at 80 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z But is this for those that may never have picked up a Dickens book in their life and think it's all bonnets and crotchety old men and women? Mashing up the world of Charles Dickens - BBC News 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z “I probably sound like a crotchety old man, but there’s a lack of a viable local music scene happening now,” he said. Shut up and sell the hits: Jonathan Galkin on 15 years of DFA Records 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Was I becoming excessively crotchety and partisan, or are these people really as weird as they seem? “They’re bonkers. Bizarre. They’re like a Star Wars bar room”: A former Republican congressman bemoans his sorry candidates 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z And unlike in America, oil and gas rights in Britain belong to the Crown, making it harder to reward crotchety landowners. Time to get fracking 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z He is serious: unlike his father Ron, a crotchety libertarian who ran mostly to make a point, he believes he can win—not just the Republican nomination, but the election itself. Rand’s stand 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Instead, Johnson, who told me Tuesday he was retiring at 64 because he was “old and crotchety,” remained in charge. Executive’s Ride Into Sunset Signals Brighter Day for U.S.A. Cycling 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The moment he opened his mouth, I started sifting through my memories of his recent movies, because I was convinced that he’d played the exact same "crotchety mentor" role several times before. 'The Giver' review: to live is to suffer 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z In a culture that is both obsessed and bewildered by sex, Dr. Watsa has carved out an essential spot for himself as a crotchety, unshockable truth-teller. 90-Year-Old Sex Columnist Shatters Taboos in India 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Until then, it remains a platform of 1.2 billion largely skeptical and increasingly crotchety users allergic to much smaller changes in the platform. Yes, Facebook Buying Oculus Is Dumb... For Now 2014-03-26T17:24:00Z But the former football coach, with his somewhat crotchety opinions of football these days — “those pretty boys,” he said — stole the show. | A Near-Cigar With ‘Da Coach’ Mike Ditka 2014-01-31T21:27:10Z Perhaps I am getting old and crotchety, but I prefer being called a physician rather than a “provider.” Observing Patients, Not iPads, Leads to the Best Care 2014-01-29T15:24:20Z They will get crotchety for people mentioning it, but until Michael Clarke's generous declaration on changed the course of the fifth Test, the series was heading for a rather flat finish. Unloved England have problems to solve 2013-08-28T05:49:15Z Because while the arguments might appeal to the crotchety old man in each of us, they’re dead wrong. Innovation Isn't Dead (It's Just Different) 2013-06-27T13:00:00Z He conceded that his attitude “was a testament to what I guess you would call ‘New England crotchety stubbornness.’ ” Warren B. Rudman, New Hampshire Senator, Dies at 82 2012-11-20T16:58:09Z Together they enjoy a crotchety rapport that delights Venter endlessly. Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Save the World 2012-05-30T15:30:01Z He is said to have been more nervous and crotchety, though of remarkable industry and intense likes and dislikes, which he never scrupled to express in vigorous fashion. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z He tried his crotchety best to summon his usual fury, writes Pat Forde on Yahoo.com, but it was all futile. Leading Off: Ignominy Makes N.C.A.A. Visit 2012-03-16T14:06:50Z To wait for eight or ten years, dependent on the whims of an arbitrary and crotchety old man? Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z The crotchety and hilariously witty author of Where the Wild Things Are didn’t mince words about literature, illustration and especially those wretched e-books. Late Night Laughs: 5 Best Comedy Clips of the Week 2012-01-28T00:35:14Z It's a sweet little film about a rather crotchety old widower and a young scout who accidentally end up on an adventure together. Buttoned Up: Learn to back away from digital devices 2012-01-17T18:58:03Z Dear Martin, I thought you were an old doctor who sat behind the stove full of crotchety notions. Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history 2012-01-12T03:00:13.267Z Josse, who had been simple and kind in his youth, having suffered various wrongs, became crotchety and malicious, his blood turned to bile in his veins, he became misanthropic and lived solitary and alone. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z Boys want a father who can be a boy with them, and not a crotchety old man who needs caring for like a child. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z True to his occasional crotchety nature, though, he complained about being famous or bothered by fans. Former ?60 Minutes? commentator Andy Rooney, known for his wry musings, dies at 92. 2011-11-05T11:51:06Z Had he not been crotchety from his very boyhood, his head would have been turned now. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z But befitting his trademark crotchety nature, he voiced one parting complaint: He doesn’t like being famous, nor does he like being bothered by fans. Andy Rooney considers himself lucky as he ends weekly ?60 Minutes? run after 33 years 2011-10-03T00:33:35Z I took that jelly to a crotchety old patient of mine who is boarding, and reviles all the jelly his nurse buys for him. Those Dale Girls 2011-09-05T02:00:18.917Z He is quite one of the family, you know, but very old-wifeish and crotchety, and thinks himself quite an old relation of father’s. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z She is kindness itself, then, all of a sudden, she turns 205 crotchety and says she hates everything and everybody. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z Just outside the gates is a remarkable crotchety old stone church, with a dwindling, toppling spire. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z All that day passed, and a part of the next, before any acknowledgment arrived, and she was beginning to fear she had offended her crotchety friend. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z The more thee tries to please women, mate, the more crotchety they becomes. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z I was upset by the fall, and crotchety. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z “How came you to remember a crotchety person like me, child?” Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z ‘I knew you were a little crotchety when you came to our Chartist meeting, but I thought you went the whole hog.’ Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z James Laurence is a crotchety old fellow, and not to be depended on. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z A plague on him, and all his crotchety ways! Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z "This is an aging, sometimes crotchety society that wants to avoid risks and hang on to its money," says François Heisbourg, chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Is Germany Turning Into the Strong, Silent Type? 2011-06-27T04:01:25Z The Onion’s ostensibly crotchety old publisher, a character by the name of T. Herman Zweibel, explains the paper’s crusade for a Pulitzer as the ultimate revenge after a long-running feud with Joseph Pulitzer. The Onion Is Seeking a Pulitzer, Any Pulitzer 2011-06-20T00:30:27Z Ruth Fielding had always loved it since the first day her eyes had spied it, when as a little girl she had come to live with her cross and crotchety Uncle Jabez. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z She’s down to earth, laughing off a crotchety state senator’s complaints that her daughter Willow snuck the family’s puppy, Indi, into the Capitol. Sarah Palin's E-mail Etiquette 2011-06-13T10:48:58Z You know what a crotchety fellow I am. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z The consequence is not merely want of play, but that crotchety, one-sided, narrowish mode of viewing a matter uncorrected by the necessary comparisons and considerations which people call ingenious p. 236and subtle and Gladstonian. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z The voice which came through Hall's receiver was the raspy, crotchety, bluff voice of a movie Britisher, the diction almost too good to be true. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z It is not only, however, the crotchety man, or the quarrelsome man, or the tactless man, who, because he cannot work with anybody else, poses as “independent.” Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day 2011-04-19T02:00:17.257Z Till 'the party' are able to strike out some line essentially different from Palmerston's, not merely crotchety, but really distinctive, all advocating of them in the press is impossible. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Yet I would not be thought so crotchety, so surly, such a hater of my kind, as to look on an artist as a sort of solitary. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Like most men in his predicament, to be puzzled was to be angered, and so did he inveigh to himself against "that crotchety old humbug, with his mare's nest of a secret marriage." Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Men of genius always are a queer crotchety set, they say. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z A crotchety, irritable being, who brought his religion into his business, and, therefore, occasionally muddled both. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:19.937Z "You're crotchety as a woman, Paul," laughed the other, as he gave the order. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z People called him crotchety, surly, quarrelsome, what not! Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z They are often called "cranks" by their less thoroughgoing companions, and would probably impress every one as a little crotchety and peculiar, but their action is the logical outcome of the life. Notes of an Itinerant Policeman 2011-01-24T03:00:19.187Z "Well, you have always some new crotchet in your crotchety little head," said Jennie, as she started to obey. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z "It ain't necessary for you to be watching the Walton ranch," said the crotchety district attorney. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z Mr. Fiske has given us a book which is at once sensible and attractive, on a subject about which much is written that is crotchety or tedious.—W. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z So much for the idea that New York City is home to cranky, crotchety, chronically unhappy people who are never, ever O.K. with anything. City Room: Surprise: Most New Yorkers Say They Like the City 2010-10-20T22:34:00Z “The difference is I don’t think there’s a crotchety old reporter saying something negative about Camilo,” Kim said in a telephone interview. Golfer?s Tasks: Hole Putt, Ride Bike, Pose Nude 2010-09-25T18:55:00Z “I would love for him to totally unplug, to be totally engaged,” says Mrs. Campbell, who adds that he becomes “crotchety until he gets his fix.” Your Brain on Computers: Attached to Technology and Paying a Price 2010-06-07T03:06:00Z But that might not be true now that the crotchety Specter is that Democrat. Why Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter Switched Parties 2010-05-19T16:30:00Z In a culture that emphasizes appearance, keeping the country's top brass looking relevant and less like crotchety old men may be vital to the country's historical identity. Did Founding Fathers on Currency Get Facelifts? 2010-04-21T16:57:00Z Some days, though, they seemed like two ailing, crotchety old women, and other days like two little girls who just wanted to play. 2010-02-01T05:00:00Z He had heard his father speak of him as a crotchety, peculiar person, who all his life long did the most unexpected things. The Man from Jericho You think I'm a queer, crotchety old fellow, eh? Nancy of Paradise Cottage His poetical and dramatic capacity has been considerably exaggerated by the learned but crotchety scholar who was at first charged with the joint editorship of his works in the Bibliothèque Elzévirienne. A Short History of French Literature If the tenantry regarded the landlord as a simple-hearted, crotchety old gentleman with no harm in him, the landlord believed them to be almost incurably sunk in barbarism and superstition. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago Sandy would tilt at his cousin's fad at times, and this was a time, for Sandy had been crotchety for a week. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade The boys had often looked on it with longing eyes, but the owner was a sour-faced, crotchety old man who was enraged by the mere sight of a boy on his property. Under Boy Scout Colors As he grew older, he grew dogmatic and crotchety in the extreme. Home Life of Great Authors I even began to think that perhaps Mrs. Pitbladder was merely absent-minded and a little crotchety; that she had not meant to forget my fifteen cents change. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself Always acute, but sometimes crotchety, he had the same fault in politics which was the reproach of Lord Eldon in law—indecision; and this in no small degree impaired both his efficacy and his authority. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III And Lamb had a much less wide and a much more crotchety system of admissions and exclusions. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 It is clear, my good friend, such a crotchety prig Has but little pretence to the title of Whig. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 Thus he had crotchety ideas about truth and honor, such as one might expect from so knightly looking a personage. The First Violin A Novel The real trouble was that Gerhardt had grown intensely morose and crotchety, and it was becoming impossible for young people to live with him. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel Everyone who is crotchety, or enthusiastic, or anxious for notoriety, or desirous to serve a party or please a constituency, may set a hand to the work. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Fancy being at the beck and call of a crotchety old beldame, at my time of life. The Tale of Timber Town In the flesh he had been a crabbed and crotchety ancient addicted to drink. The Belovéd Vagabond There never was any evil in him, that I could see, from a child; but crotchety, always crotchety, Frank. The Perpetual Curate The crotchety father was disposed to have it out with either the knaves or the fools in the game, did not Arthur reduce him to quiet by his little indictment. The Art of Disappearing I am growing old, taciturn, crotchety, strict; I seldom laugh, and people say I am growing like Radish, and, like him, I bore the men with my aimless moralising. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories Undoubtedly they lend themselves to this; they are obstinate, foolish, prosy, boring, crotchety and unpleasant to look upon. The Cult of Incompetence You ought to begin with some weak, crotchety, poor old cripple, who would be a great deal better out of the way. The Fixed Period "No; they are all equally crotchety, I think," said Mr Proctor. The Perpetual Curate Remembering his last interview with the crotchety old man, Wallace was particularly circumspect when he met him. The Rider of Waroona His shyness, his apparent coldness, his crotchety obstinacy, repelled people, and consequently those who at any time during his life really understood him must have been very few. Old Familiar Faces I am my own man now; but Cecily is crotchety, and must not be distressed.’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Inside the house a crotchety old man and a lonely woman. Grey Town An Australian Story "From what I hear, they are all very crotchety," he continued, and finished his breakfast calmly, as if that settled the question. The Perpetual Curate He would be crotchety at breakfast across his bacon. Chimney-Pot Papers He was aimlessly industrious, crotchety but kind, and almost quixotically honest. The Job An American Novel "Oh, we shall rake them all, but Blackbeard may have changed that crotchety mind of his and taken the men back to his ship." Blackbeard: Buccaneer Her heart beat with joy, but she was exceedingly careful not to betray her state of mind to Daniel: she was afraid of his contradictory and crotchety disposition. The Goose Man A crotchety person, according to this same Noah Webster, whom I have quoted before, is one who has whims or crotchets in the brain. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. Like all radicals and reformers they had a fringe of unbalanced and crotchety folk. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement This is why so many men are one-sided, narrow-minded, prejudiced, crotchety. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin And, sure enough, the very first time I carried her up those stairs over there, all my fine, cranky, crotchety bachelor notions flew out of my head. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play He had been trying to make conversation with that strangely crotchety man, but had completely failed. The History of "Punch" And the whole scheme, you see, came from the crotchety brain of our friend, Mike Marble. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. How long will the richest field of national folly in the world remain unreaped, save by the crotchety sickles of dull moralists and didactic pamphleteers? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Nanny Craig—who later became Mother Dalton—had, in remote eighteen hundred and twenty, been a squalling, crabbed baby, and had apparently started life determined to be crotchety. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story No. I thought Mike the Angel was about sixty years old, a crotchety old genius behind a desk, as eccentric as a comet’s orbit, and wealthier than Croesus. Unwise Child Bella waited on the supper table, was snapped at by Miss Timmins, and driven from pillar to post by that crotchety individual. Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point He was poor and crotchety, and as regards professional matters unsteady. Orley Farm You know how crotchety Mr. Gaythorne is," he said, quickly, "and it will never do to disappoint him; he might be a bit touchy. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient My Father says that lamp is left By a little crooked, crotchety man, Who cannot find his wayward son; When the horn begins to blow, He has to drop his light and run. Lundy's Lane and Other Poems The Whigs are too superficial, too crotchety, and too self-opinionated to be whist-players; and, worse than all, too distrustful. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General "It would have been a funny joke if you played it on some good-humoured young feller," said grandma, "but Jake there is entitled to some kind of consideration, because he is old and crotchety." Some Everyday Folk and Dawn His second important peculiarity shows that he must have been an odd and crotchety creature, but one with sense in his crotchets. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) I’m a disagreeable crotchety fellow, but you know you can trust me. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore Many of us with crotchety, sour dispositions and quick tempers sometimes have very hard work to be decent in our treatment of others. Pushing to the Front But what a crotchety thing all this amateur lawmaking is! Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General You may think all these matters of no consequence to your studies of art and divinity; and that I am merely crotchety and absurd. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature The engine, giving glory to the entire establishment by virtue of the imposing word ‘steam’, was a crotchety and capricious thing, constant only in its tendency to break down. Clayhanger In this section the phrase occurs, "their Majesties," but this is probably a mistake in printing, though a crotchety reasoner might find in it a doubt of the authenticity of the Act. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Sometimes she is quite angelic for a whole day, and the next morning is so crotchety and aggravating that it nearly drives one wild. The Heart of Una Sackville I shall be honest, too, because I’m too lazy to be anything else; besides, you know, there is always the pleasing reflection that he may prefer us to be crotchety! The Fortunes of the Farrells The tenant in the next flat is a bit crotchety; he's a musician, and rather deaf. The Daffodil Mystery Also he was very ‘crotchety about his meals,’ and on the subject of fresh air. Clayhanger "Oh, he's old and lame, I suppose, and has a crotchety temper." For the Sake of the School And I've no doubt you think me simply a disagreeable, crotchety old person. Torchy, Private Sec. The mission, the project, was not mine; but when I found my comrade had the means, which had hitherto evaded me, of reaching Gindarics, I threw no obstacles in his crotchety course. Tancred Or, The New Crusade The taking of his testimony was a proceeding held in a small side apartment before an elderly crotchety underling who pretended to understand English and French, but whose thick-wittedness seemed monumental. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Mrs Nixon’s niece had committed the folly of marriage, and for many months Maggie and the old servant had been ‘managing;’ but with a crotchety invalid always in the house, more help would be indispensable. Clayhanger The children of selfish parents would be thieves; those of spendthrifts, beggars; those of crotchety parents, monomaniacs; those born of sensual parents, beastly debauchees. Plain Facts for Old and Young I am sorry if I seem crotchety, dear. The Captain of the Kansas When kept as pets they become very tame, though some are crotchety tempered, and bite severely. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Channing appears to have been a crotchety, disgruntled person, always aiming at walking on his head instead of on his heels. The Last Harvest They had an easy rapport, despite all their differences, and spoke in a shorthand of family weddings long past and crotchety relatives long dead. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town "Why, then," said Mr. Tomkins, "so they are; and so would I be, as crotchety as you like, if I owned anything beyond the | little I have." Autumn A member's vote,—except on some small crotchety open question thrown out for the amusement of crotchety members,—was due to the leader of that member's party. Phineas Finn The Irish Member There is no crotchety old Uncle, or Grand-Ma, with their everlasting "Boys, boys!" and then a look of such horror! Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons Mr. Fiske has given us a book which is at once sensible and attractive, on a subject about which much is written that is crotchety or tedious.—W.R.S. The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin The love of a crippled veteran; the wealth of a petty farmer; the companionship of a crotchety pedagogue. The Soldier of the Valley The group was apparently "nonplussed," as the adjutant afterwards put it, by such unlooked-for complaisance on the part of the usually crotchety senior captain. From the Ranks You will be considered as crotchety, and impracticable. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library When he sent the book of the Ring to Schopenhauer, that crotchety critic wrote in it that it seemed mainly concerned with clouds; and truly it very largely is. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Even the most equable of tempers, it would seem, may now and then prove crotchety. Diane of the Green Van He has got so confoundedly crotchety of late, that I should not feel surprised if, under some whim or other, he set his face-against it altogether. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One I hear Mr. Crotch87 disputed some of your facts about the wingless insects, but he is a crotchety man. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 It was plainly to be seen how much she despised him for sitting there so ugly and sulky, like some crotchety old man. Jerusalem More than one black man, rising high in porter service, has had his vanity come to grief when this crotchety personage has come on his car. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers Jack sat and waited while the room filled with ruddy, crotchety gentlemen supported by canes or crutches--elderly, old and of middle age. In the Days of Poor Richard To them Master Bach was a hot-tempered, fastidious, crotchety person, endured because no equally competent organist would take his place at the price. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians A "National party" was formed, consisting of monarchists, Bonapartists, clericals, and even some crotchety socialists--in fact, of all who hoped to make capital out of the fell of the Parliamentary regime. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) Mr. Disraeli declared it to be "opposed to every sound principle, its direct effect being to create a stagnant representation ... an admirable scheme for bringing crotchety men into the House." Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government Everyone also knows innumerable young mothers who put up with inexcusable crankiness from a crotchety middle-aged woman because she was "so wonderful" to the baby. Etiquette An able though crotchety man brought forward a measure, and, once proposed, it was certain to go through, because to oppose its passage would have been to be aristocratic and un-American. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 Much as Cobbett disliked persons, and crotchety as he was in his dislikes, they were always dislikes of principle in the bottom. Political Pamphlets For he was a person rich in friends, reserved as he generally was, and crotchety as most of them thought him. Lady Rose's Daughter Dear Mr. Kenyon calls me 'crotchety,' but Robert 'an incarnation of the good and the true,' so that I have everything to thank him for. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) He had taken to carnal repasts with the eagerness of a crotchety man affected with a depraved appetite and given to sudden hungers, whose taste is quickly dulled and surfeited. Against the Grain Wilks was impetuous, bad tempered and crotchety, and it is possible that the envy was, originally, rather of his own making. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Mr Meagles was much amused by his friend's oddity; and patronised him with a more protecting air of allowance than usual, when he rejoined: 'Well, well, Dan, you shall have your own crotchety way.' Little Dorrit James Laurence is a crotchety old fellow and not to be depended on. Little Women She was a crotchety old lady, and might return the second day or the third; so Miriam stayed alone in the cottage, which also pleased her. Sons and Lovers Her alert eyes scanned the nearest car steps where the porter was helping a crotchety old man to the platform. Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus The worse with him is that his disposition is so crotchety and whimsical. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Such tone was probably a part of his oddity, as one of a crotchety band; for how could he have heard anything of that kind, without Clennam's hearing it too? Little Dorrit "Where is that bald-pated and crotchety superior of yours gone?" Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books The dining room was so heavily respectable, with its fussily formal arrangements—like Uncle, for it's big; like Aunt, for it's crotchety. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Christophe could not summon up any great interest in his neighbor's crotchety notions about it, and much preferred getting him to talk about military subjects. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House The organ rumbled in its crotchety voice as the old man slowly disentangled himself from his throne, and slowly, slowly, slowly advanced down the choir. The Cathedral Now when one’s friend, or oneself, is crotchety, dogmatic, or disputatious, one cannot turn over to another day. Friends in Council — First Series There is stuff in the little man, or he wouldn't stick so manfully by this crooked, crotchety old town. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 Nothing could be so bizarre in the world, that his cloudy, crotchety brain did not accept it, and make a commonplace matter out of it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 What he had said commended itself to so many that the mean and crotchety found it politic to fall in with the prevailing spirit. From Jest to Earnest Some are sanguine and sensible, others are nervous, crotchety, and full of senseless fears. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations David was a wise and thorough builder, but he had the reputation of being rather crotchety. Masters of the Guild His crotchety uncle, with whom since the reconciliation he had resided, had died, and after a few months his wife followed him, and Roger found himself a wealthy man, but not a happy one. Without a Home Even the sensible and exemplary Southey was a little unsound in the matter of a crotchety temper, needlessly ready to take offence. The Recreations of a Country Parson She was beginning to understand her crotchety uncle. From Jest to Earnest And his career could be just as well assisted by the Bishop's daughter as by Canon Ebley's niece, even though her uncle was a crotchety and unknown Lord, patron of two fat livings. The Point of View It seemed as though Ruth could never make her crotchety old uncle love her. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret Miss Ursula Winwood knew herself to be a notable person, and the knowledge did not make her vain or crotchety or imperious. The Fortunate Youth And in both cases an avowed dissentient is set down as 'crotchety.' Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society To a singularly well-balanced mind, he appears to have joined an amiability of character that endeared him to all save the crotchety doctrinaire who sat upon the throne. Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries He had said his mother was a crotchety old woman who could not make up her mind to the changed circumstances, and was intensely prejudiced against women above her own class. Demos He was a crotchety old fellow in the primary stage of drink. Ulysses Yet, you know, it would be well to have a few crotchety people in the House of Commons. Mr. Hogarth's Will He told her of his father, the crotchety old soldier, whose absurd sense of duty and whose elaborate Southern courtesy had become a byword in the South. The Barrier Her maid is rather a crotchety old person, and very uneducated; besides, the cat gives her sufficient employment. Herb of Grace Few men were more popular, though the fast men used to call him crotchety; and on some subjects, indeed, he was very impatient of contradiction. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn In 1883 died Edward FitzGerald, the most kind, loyal, and, as he said, crotchety of old and dear Cambridge friends. Alfred Tennyson Perhaps he inherited this from his mother, a rebellious, crotchety, somewhat fantastic person, by whose temper he himself had suffered. Fabre, Poet of Science His unreasonable passion for a girl he knows he can never marry makes him somewhat crotchety and cranky: that, and over-study, may have unhinged his mind a little. Hard Cash Secondly, a crotchety uncle, for whom she reads, runs, writes, and sews so willingly that he cannot get on without her. Rose in Bloom I do not want to be crotchety, but I should hate signing without some expression about the site being easily accessible to the populace of the whole of London. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 "The ill-natured, crotchety, old—the fact is, he is a misogynist." A Simpleton He may be an upright, clear-headed, indefatigable man, in the prime of life, or he may be old, crotchety, pigheaded, and mentally and physically incapable. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Sometimes the meekest of them will turn out crotchety, though the crotchety ones never grow any sweeter. A Woman of Thirty Did he think that reading tracts to crotchety old women was joy to a full-blooded girl in her twenties? Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Mr. Fentolin is only an ordinary, crotchety invalid with queer tastes. The Vanished Messenger "A fine scholar," said the Rev. Doctor, "but crotchety, like all men who cannot stand their Port." The Egoist We will suppose that the crotchety old gentleman arrives first. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon And right on up to the end of our days, our feet are getting more infirm and more troublesome and more crotchety and harder to bear with all the time. Cobb's Anatomy Invent anything of any kind and claim your rights, you will be crotchety, cunning, ill-disposed to rising younger men. The Atheist's Mass The inspection was close at hand, and if the crotchety colonel should take it into his head to examine a single page, the murder would be out and Burle would be done for. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
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