He pointed out that his apparent grouchiness was evidence of his intense focus.
The fatigue and grouchiness have evaporated, and she looks genuinely disappointed that we don't have more time.
Is your furrowed brow making you look like you're in a perpetual state of grouchiness?
After a while, the dark cloud of "no" was replaced by the expansive sky of a "yes" that had endless room for grouchiness and irritation.
Their editors' grouchiness hid a slightly bruised idealism.
These items are untruth, unfairness, sharp practice, grouchiness, impatience, worry, ill-health, gloom, meanness, broken word, unfilled promises and the like.
Once they got started, all the grouchiness disappeared.
Out of his cocoon of grouchiness he broke as a real butterfly of chatter.
