curmudgeon

1 We were in Edinburgh visiting the in-laws. I was, as usual, being a grumpy old curmudgeon. My people don't travel well.

2 “Greenberg,” for example, was a tough sell, its focus on an abrasive curmudgeon — it was Stiller’s first film with Baumbach — who alienates almost everyone, except the character played by Gerwig.

3 The novel’s protagonist, Ove, is a lonely curmudgeon who screams at his neighbors for parking in the wrong place and punches a hospital clown whose magic tricks annoy him.

4 It's a remarkable turn of events, but arguably most staggering of all is that Mustaine, metal's eternal curmudgeon, seems to have made peace with his past and finally buried the hatchet with Metallica.

5 Rather than the usual blustery curmudgeon, Mr. Hogan’s Chris Christopherson is a cautious, gentle man, both cowed and calloused by years at sea.

6 Lest I sound like a curmudgeon in need of a chill pill, let me say I don’t mind a friendly server and some banter with my meals.

7 I hope this letter doesn’t make me sound like a curmudgeon.

8 She “could be a curmudgeon,” Shivers said, “but she took a liking to Neil.”

9 He gradually settled into becoming a street-preaching curmudgeon of the Anthropocene, a role he easily picks up on “Down in the Weeds.”

10 Zien didn't mind being dubbed cast "curmudgeon," though he revealed a tender side in his homage to the late Tom Aldredge, who played the narrator.

11 The X Factor is a fixture of Britain's entertainment calendar and is judged by veteran talent show curmudgeon Simon Cowell, among others.

12 ...such a terrible old curmudgeon.

脾气相当暴躁的老倔头

13 It's a relief to realise that I'm a victim of statistics and not a curmudgeon.

14 It's an excellent voice for a professional curmudgeon whose job is to riff on modern life in two-minute televised bursts.

15 Bird, the eldest, is the sanctimonious curmudgeon, who preaches a gospel of God, firm morals and hard work, but also has his own losses that have hardened him.

16 He cultivated a public image as a curmudgeon, but in person he was generous and witty, inviting interviewers for long conversations in his dimly lit study, his fingers tweezering an ever-present cigarette.

17 He’s just this very unpleasant curmudgeon, a narcissistic, selfish man in his late middle age, and yet there’s something terribly endearing about him.

18 Lest you think me a curmudgeon, let me say there are some compelling stretches.

19 Langella, who has been doing the publicity rounds with him, is such a charmer it is hard to buy him as a curmudgeon.

20 An alcoholic and a curmudgeon with a high school education from rural Mississippi who was chosen for some reason by the Divine to impart Truth to mankind.

1 坏脾气的人

grouch grump crosspatch

2 守财奴

miserly screw miser skinflint hunks churl niggard muckworm Scrooge Shylock moneybags bog-pocket flayflint Jew cheapskate tightwad moneybag moneygrubber

3 乖戾的人

crabstick

4 脾气坏的人

grump crank splenetic grouch splenetical churl feist crabstick crosspatch

5 吝啬鬼

cheapskate screw miser Scrooge meanie skinflint tightwad bean-counter churl pinchpenny muckworm scrapepenny save-all bog-pocket flayflint nipcheese stiff scrimp squeezer pinchgut penny-pincher

6 脾气不好的人

crosspatch crabstick