英:['ɡrʌmpɪlɪ]
美:['ɡrʌmpɪlɪ]
英:['ɡrʌmpɪlɪ]
美:['ɡrʌmpɪlɪ]
Adverb
1. in an ill-natured manner;
"she looked at her husband crossly"
The first known use of grumpy was in 1778
1 “Is this it?” he said grumpily to Aunt Petunia.
2 He sits down and even mentions that he didn’t get the standing ovation, grumpily.
3 Sanders seemed momentarily taken aback, then talked some and walked grumpily away so fast that he almost missed Tom Steyer’s handshake.
4 When his parents woke him up to tell him what happened, he grumpily told them to “drink a little less” and rolled back over to sleep.
5 “I just want someone to listen to my heart,” he says a little grumpily.
6 If I am not careful, however, busily and happily can easily morph into frantically and grumpily.
7 “Was awakened before daylight by the fool band passing, a fiesta today, up on the hill,” she noted rather grumpily during a 1931 trip to Guatemala.
8 Others grumpily insisted that “paradox” is a $20 word for “inconsistency” and pointed out that inconsistencies tend to complicate practical activity.
9 “No, I think I know what happened,” I answered grumpily.
10 “I wish I could go back to bed,” she said grumpily as she put the key into the ignition.
11 And we live — happily or grumpily — with its legacy even as the signs of its obsolescence multiply.
12 "Now you're going to ask about family, compromising, why have you put your family on the telly and all that sort of stuff," he says grumpily.
13 The Fat Lady was snoozing and not pleased to be woken, but swung forward grumpily to allow them to clamber into the mercifully peaceful and empty common room.
14 Truffle hunting is not all they do — one plays the drums; another, who is grumpily retired, bangs out angry poems on his Olivetti — but it defines their view of the world.
15 For the next 20 years Engels worked grumpily away, handing over half his generous income to an ever more demanding Marx.
在其后的20年间,恩格斯任劳但不任怨的经营棉纺厂,将其丰厚收入的一半交给需求越来越多的马克思。
16 “So,” Min said grumpily, “would you be telling me about it, or must I guess?”
17 “Always the tone of surprise,” he said a little grumpily, breaking free.
18 As the Psammead grumpily explains, “You hadn’t the sense to wish for what was good for you.”
19 Another photo taken that same day shows Brook Kitchin, who played St. George, standing grumpily in a corner in his uniform and fake mustache.
20 Resting one foot on the low windowsill, he gazed grumpily down at the parking lot.