Crotchety
Both words in one sentence
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The short-lived 1960s sitcom The Second Hundred Years featured Monte Markham as both modern day urbanite and his crotchety old grandfather, an Alaskan gold miner who had been trapped in the ice for 67 years, and recently thawed.
Source: Uncanny Family Resemblance
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Short and Crotchety. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crotchety/short
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