“Irritated at the prospect of having to consider such a question, I called out grouchily.”
“Pip and Lynn were wearing riding habits, Pip complaining grouchily about having to wear skirts, even split ones.”
“At one point, Mrs. Brown told her husband to brush a stray lock of hair from his forehead, whereupon the prime minister muttered grouchily that he had not known he was going to have his picture taken.”