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Six example sentences with curmudgeon, each labelled with its topic.
The film hands its curmudgeon a stray dog and lets him grumble for an hour before he softens.
Movies
Every village novel needs a curmudgeon at the post office who disapproves of newcomers and predicts disaster loudly.
Literature
The tavern quest sends you to a curmudgeon who refuses to trade until you fix his fence for free.
Gaming
The retired coach plays the curmudgeon on the broadcast, grumbling that nobody in the league boxes out anymore.
Basketball
The orchestra's oldest violinist is a famous curmudgeon who calls every new conductor a child with a stick.
Music
Voters kept re-electing the curmudgeon because he answered every letter himself and never promised anything he could not deliver.
Politics
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