1
: a fit of ill humor or sulkiness
—usually used in plural
2
: a person given to complaining
Examples of grump in a Sentence
Noun
Our neighbor is an old grump.
a real grump in the morning
Verb
those incessantly grumping patients were generally ignored by the nursing home staff
he's been grumping about the house all morning because the golf tournament got rained out
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
How this small but annoying quirk came to be — and how to fix it
There might be several reasons why bar culture has tipped in a way that makes a bartender feel like an old grump yelling at children to get off his lawn.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
Sarah Todd, Quartz, 13 July 2021
However, George did join William and Kate on their tour of Australia in 2014 and was the grumpiest grump that ever grumped.
—Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 24 June 2019
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Noun
His ability to be believable as both a laconic grump and a hysterically shrieking interrogator helps add some emotional grounding to Havoc, which otherwise indulges in Evans’s more-is-more-is-more ideology.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
How this small but annoying quirk came to be — and how to fix it
There might be several reasons why bar culture has tipped in a way that makes a bartender feel like an old grump yelling at children to get off his lawn.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
For someone who felt exhausted by putting on a faux-happy face at work every day, the return might be a chance to establish boundaries and a reputation for being an authentic (but still likable) grump.
—Sarah Todd, Quartz, 13 July 2021
However, George did join William and Kate on their tour of Australia in 2014 and was the grumpiest grump that ever grumped.
—Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 24 June 2019
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“Grump.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grump. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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