| We don't want householders to feel like curmudgeons which is why the posters wish callers an enjoyable night. |
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| And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons. |
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| The general spirit of bonhomie and celebration lifts even curmudgeons like me over the worst stretches of inanity. |
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| This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness. |
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| They are workers, or spouses, curmudgeons, derelicts, or hopeless romantics. |
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| What is it about the ageing process that turns us into moaning curmudgeons who think everything is going to pot? |
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| The brothers delighted in their new-found reputation as the British film industry's curmudgeons. |
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| Who can be found this quirky capital of curmudgeons and quidnuncs? |
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| As it turns out, though, cartoon curmudgeons get the best, most ridiculous lines. |
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| Come to think of it, haven't a few atavistic curmudgeons suggested doing just that with the whole constitution? |
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| Even balcony-dwelling curmudgeons Statler and Waldorf will flip for this four-disc set of one of TV's greatest, oddest variety shows. |
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| How can university professors turn computer curmudgeons into techno-riffic teachers? |
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| The biggest barrier to change is psychological: young high-flyers find it hard to manage older workers, and older curmudgeons resent being bossed about by whippersnappers. |
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| Libertarianism, like all ideologies, has its share of curmudgeons. |
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