(1) But sometimes you have two choices: swear and mutter and grump , or breath out and go with the flow.(2) I ask him if his books are his children, and sense the old grump in his response that, if they are, they're children he can't wait to be rid of.(3) Now, I don't wish to sound like just an old grump .(4) Are you in a grump because of your cough, or is there nobody out there?(5) If she does, someone PLEASE remind me not to be a grump and complain how dirty and old everything looks.(6) Next time you come across a grump in the dumps, flash him a grin and a cheerful ‘hello.’(7) But worst, at least from a political perspective, the hectoring made him look like a grump .(8) Sure, you've picked out something special for the spouse, the kids are taken care of, and you think you've even found something that your grump of a father-in-law won't grump about.(9) She was just in a grump because she had been stood up by someone whom she likes very much but doesn't like her back.(10) Maradona is not the only fellow to descend into a grump with world football's organisers.(11) he walks off in a grump to the other end of the meadow(12) I don't like crowded places, and he was in a grump too (only ever happens when he feels ill, so I suppose I should be grateful).(13) I was grading for a real curmudgeon, the grump who wound up being my thesis advisor.(14) He plays him as a cuddly grump , a sweet-natured misanthrope, more doleful than angry.(15) So what about people's image of him as a reclusive grump ?(16) The other one's a grump and because of mistreatment being bred in its bones is just getting used to me.