grumpily


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grump·y

 (grŭm′pē)
adj. grump·i·er, grump·i·est
Surly and peevish; cranky.
grump′i·ly adv.
grump′i·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.grumpily - in an ill-natured manner; "she looked at her husband crossly"
crossly, grouchily
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Translations
بِمُشاكَسَه، بِكَثير مِن الشَّكْوى
mrzutěnabručeně
gnavent
geîvonskulega, meî fÿlu
aksi aksi

grumpily

[ˈgrʌmpɪlɪ] ADV → gruñonamente, malhumoradamente
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

grumpily

[ˈgrʌmpɪli] adv [say] → d'un air bougon
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

grumpily

adv (inf) → brummig (inf), → mürrisch
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

grumpily

[ˈgrʌmpɪlɪ] adv → in modo scorbutico, scorbuticamente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

grumpy

(ˈgrampi) adjective
bad-tempered. a grumpy old man.
ˈgrumpily adverb
ˈgrumpiness noun
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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And the other, an older man, uttered grumpily: "No fear!
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"Then yez don't know what's good for yez," retorted Peg, rather grumpily. But a few whiffs of her pipe placated her and, observing Cecily sigh, she asked her kindly what was the matter.
"Well, I hope your Sunday School will do yez good," said Peg, rather grumpily. But she relented again at the last and gave Cecily a wishbone.
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"I'm offering you a partnership," said Doctor South grumpily.
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I muttered, grumpily, that I had no particular respect for Falk.
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"Never spoke to him in my life," I said grumpily. "Can't imagine what he means by competing.
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Monsieur George remarked grumpily that he couldn't say.
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At this rate it won't be long before I'm hollering 'fiddlesticks', 'cripes' and 'gadzooks' as I grumpily drive through the capital's accident blackspots.
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That would explain why she grumpily stuck a finger up at our snapper.
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Normally when they've stopped yawning they'll turn the page after grumpily saying something like ``idiot or loser'' and I'll know my job is done.
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Haworth, near Keighley in Yorkshire, is the home of the Bronte sisters and every bank holiday it is packed with crowds jostling grumpily in its cobbled streets.
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After missing the cut, he bowed out grumpily, blaming everyone except himself for his seemingly irreversible loss of form.
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