“I might have been guilty of this myself when younger, but that's not gonna stop me from being an old grouch about it now.”

“Also, he did have a grouch about Mr. Gleason's attentions to Miss Lindsay, that I know.”

“It all ends in a sulky grouch and an unwillingness to do anything.”

“I understated the grouchiness of the article, and the author's obvious unhappiness with a lot of new historicism.”

“I understated the grouchiness of the article, and his obvious unhappiness with a lot of new historicism.”

“I was all set for a fit of superb grouchiness but if someone can make me laugh, my good nature comes back pretty quickly.”