'grumpiness' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is irritable, easily annoyed, or in a bad mood. Example: After working a long shift at the hospital, Jennifer was exhausted and her grumpiness was noticeable as she snapped at her coworkers.
(Suppose Socrates is very grumpy; suppose in fact that grumpiness is so deeply ingrained in his character that worlds in which he is genial are quite far away and rather few in number.
But it's also an easy way to make your privileged personal grumpiness into a public spectacle – and look like an idiot in the process.
"These days," he says, "anything which takes more than two years to develop is in trouble".Mr Barrett affects unconcern, but the grumpiness is back: "We've been competing with AMD for 30 years—sometimes they do a little bit better, sometimes a little bit worse.
Partly this was sheer grumpiness that France is yet again using its big-power status to bend the stability-pact rules.
Given that there are at least 43,678 species of the critters, though, it is not too surprising that a few have overcome their natural grumpiness and teamed up to form societies.
But when you know two international languages fluently, the third probably matters rather less.In this section The grumpiness of the middle classes Scylla and Charybdis, or Patricia and Brussels Brighton rocks How green was my pampa Prayer and statistics No comment Pleas please me By George Kennedy's paradox Reprints.
The late Pim Fortuyn used to say the same.Dutch grumpiness with Europe has been greatly aggravated by arguments over the euro and Iraq.
He has a reputation for grumpiness over Europe, based largely on his guardianship of the "five tests" for British membership of the euro.
Intensive care can improve survival chances but also damage the baby's body and mind.In this section The grumpiness of the middle classes Scylla and Charybdis, or Patricia and Brussels Brighton rocks How green was my pampa Prayer and statistics No comment Pleas please me By George Kennedy's paradox ReprintsThis raises a lot of tricky questions about how and when to treat very premature babies.
That suggests a mix of independent-mindedness, grumpiness over the lack of ministerial jobs (a result of coalition government) and pressures on them from below.
This guarantees more tough Christmases for millions, more grumpiness and, possibly, a downgrading of competent economic management as the main determinant of British elections.Mr Miliband has seized upon this as a second chance.
