Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Exempel

• There's a cranky curmudgeon working at the hospital who gives all the patients and other doctors flak.
• John Doe's old age and stubborn aversion to new ideas make him a curmudgeon of a candidate.
• After a while, as cultural debates became more polarized, the editorial tone of the New Criterion went from being charmingly curmudgeon to being bitterly shrill.
• How to Be a Curmudgeon on the Internet
• How should I respond, without appearing to be a curmudgeon?
• A very "fine old English gentleman", was my grand-uncle Rumgudgeon, but unlike him of the song, he had his weak points. He was a little, pursy, pompous, passionate semicircular somebody, with a red nose, a thick scull, a long purse, and a strong sense of his own consequence. With the best heart in the world, he contrived, through a predominant whim of contradiction, to earn for himself, among those who only knew him superficially, the character of a curmudgeon.