How to use "crotchety" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "crotchety" in popular movie and book plots

  • Shen Meng Jun (Gua Ah-leh) is a crotchety prideful 70-year-old widow who frequently finds fault with everyone around her.  - 20 Once Again
  • Tia and Tony hide out in a green-and-white Winnebago motor home owned by a crotchety widower named Jason O'Day (Eddie Albert).  - Escape to Witch Mountain (1975 film)
  • Believing Brink to be an ordinary stranger, the crotchety old Gramps orders mr Brink off the property.  - On Borrowed Time
  • However, Kiyo's crotchety mother-in-law conspires with her grandchildren to drive the Nakaokas out.  - Barefoot Gen
  • The man is crotchety and arthritic, demanding aspirin, Chinese food menu order numbers 27 and 53 and brown ale.  - Skellig

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