Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word GRUMPILY

Definitions of GRUMPILY

1. In a grumpy manner; in a cranky manner.

Examples of Using GRUMPILY in a Sentence

• When they strike a "scorehole", a very large deposit of methane and water, their fortune seems assured, and Teri expects to marry the boy she has been courting; when it turns out he has married someone else, she grumpily agrees to one more year of school at least, and she and Telemachus take on the job of shepherding a group of younger children to the school at Red Sands City.
• Likening humans to the microscopic phagocytes that dwell within our bodies, he grumpily remarks, 'We know only a little more extended reality than the hypothetical creature below us.
• Pasquano, who grumpily refuses to give details on the deceased before the autopsy, Questor Bonetti-Alderighi, who does not authorize Montalbano to investigate his own death, and his friend Mimì Augello.

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