All grumbly synonyms
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G g adjective grumbly
adj grumbly
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- carping — tending to make petty complaints; fault-finding
- censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
- complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- critical — If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
- cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- crying — notorious; lamentable (esp in the phrase crying shame)
- discontented — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
- dissatisfied — not satisfied or pleased; discontented.
- edgy — nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
- fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- fretful — disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- lamenting — to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- plaintive — expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.
- snappy — Snappy Video Snapshot
- sour — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- testy — irritably impatient; touchy.
- uptight — tense, nervous, or jittery.
- waspish — Waspy.
- scrappy — fond of fighting, arguing, or competing.
- wailing — to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
- bearish — On the stock market, if there is a bearish mood, prices are expected to fall. Compare bullish.
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- waspy — Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. of, relating to, or characteristic of WASPs: a Waspy country club.
- whining — to utter a low, usually nasal, complaining cry or sound, as from uneasiness, discontent, peevishness, etc.: The puppies were whining from hunger.
- whiny — complaining; fretful; cranky: The baby is whiny because he missed his nap.