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Recent Examples of curmudgeon This fuzzy green hermit has become synonymous with Christmas-hating curmudgeons and greedy holiday buzzkills worldwide since Dr. Seuss introduced him in his 1957 children's book of the same name. Mike Miller, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024 But there’s one Kansas City salad that even a greens curmudgeon like me will eat: the spinach and goat cheese salad at Spin! Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025 Notorious curmudgeon and Steely Dan co-founder Fagen, who at first didn’t respond to his overtures. Pat Saperstein, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024 Mark, now long since passed, was a glorious curmudgeon. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for curmudgeon
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curmudgeon
Noun
  • Officials also asked people to report sightings of the crab to the department, along with photos and locations.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • In October, whale watchers found Check entangled in lines and buoys from a Dungeness crab trap off the coast of Monterey, officials said.
    Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Despite initially remaining hot on the man's heels for a moment, the bear eventually gave up the chase.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, in California, the logo is a golden bear with a star in the middle and in Texas, the Real ID is a golden circle with a white star at the top right corner.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Kitchen Accessories Collectible kitchen accessories can range from regular-use items like beautiful copper pots to more decorative items, like vintage bread boxes and hand crank mixers.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2025
  • At the same time, Barnes was a crank of operatic grandiosity—thin-skinned, bellicose, distrustful, fickle, and vindictive.
    Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
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

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“Curmudgeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curmudgeon. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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