grumpier in English

adjective

1

bad-tempered and sulky.

Read a selection of past interviews and you're left with a picture of a truculent, grumpy old curmudgeon.

synonyms: bad-tempered, crabby, ill-tempered, short-tempered, crotchety, tetchy, testy, waspish, prickly, touchy, irritable, irascible, crusty, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, bearish, surly, ill-natured, churlish, ill-humored, peevish, pettish, cross, fractious, disagreeable, snappish, grouchy, snappy, cranky, shirty, ornery

adjective

• bad-tempered, crabby, ill-tempered, short-tempered, crotchety, tetchy, testy, waspish, prickly, touchy, irritable, irascible, crusty, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, bearish, surly, ill-natured, churlish, ill-humored, peevish, pettish, cross, fractious, disagreeable, snappish, grouchy, snappy, cranky, shirty, ornery
• ill-tempered, cross, fussy, crabbed, grouchy, crabby, bad-tempered

Use "grumpier" in a sentence

1. And then Georg had closed in on her, a grumpier, more disapproving, hectoring Georg.

2. Synonyms for Crankier include grouchier, grumpier, crotchetier, worse-tempered, crabbier, crosser, testier, tetchier, pricklier and curmudgeonlier

3. Enter "The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers," a likable Disney+ series about a modern team of quirky underdogs, with Emilio Estevez reprising his role as an older, considerably grumpier coach.