(1) But the victims are not limited to curmudgeonly right-wingers.

(2) It feels a bit curmudgeonly to suggest that these happy Asian trends should be greeted with skepticism.

(3) He is the most curmudgeonly character in a star-studded Disney menagerie that includes Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Goofy and Pluto.

(4) He displayed a curmudgeonly unwillingness to accept the voters' verdict.

(5) So I told Jackson that for all his curmudgeonly talk about despising the All-Star weekend that he was right in tune with its spirit: fun and entertainment.

(6) There's the cliche of the curmudgeonly comic – grouchy, aloof, a bit passive aggressive – and there's the one who can't switch off[Sentence dictionary], and craves laughter like you or I need oxygen.

(7) For the more curmudgeonly sort of older manager, the current recession is the joyful equivalent of hiding an alarm clock in a sleeping teenager's bedroom.

(8) "A Christmas Carol" is the tale of curmudgeonly miser Ebenezer Scrooge.

(9) Only Humphrey Bogart, in his later years, could bring the right sort of edge to this amoral, curmudgeonly character.

(10) The actor Walter Matthau, best known for playing crumpled, curmudgeonly characters on screen, has died aged 79.

(11) In the sea of money, intellectuals crying out to save comers of Asia's past seemed like curmudgeonly "even dangerous" opponents of progress.

(12) Over time, the strategy softened Helms' resistance, setting the stage for the curmudgeonly North Carolina politician to end his financial stranglehold on the U.N.

(13) Under Mr Obama nobody will dare to seem so curmudgeonly.

(14) It could be a taste of the future for job interviews and the beginning of the end for curmudgeonly work colleagues.