sorehead

The public would say I was a sorehead, and jealous.

That way, maybe a sorehead word like clipped would never even be thought of.

Maybe I'd become a bit of a sorehead, too.

He said aloud, "Forgive me for being such an old sorehead today.

All it took to finish him was one sorehead and one telephone call.

I thought I was the only sorehead in the Families.

Anyway, it's sweet of you to say so, sorehead.

Todd Harvey has a sore thumb and he acted like a sorehead.

But it's dangerous because any sorehead can stick the Feds onto you and once they start checking your patients they'll find one that will talk.

Grant argued the point all the way up to the national office, and all he got for his efforts was a reputation as a sorehead.

He was a sorehead, they said.

Eddie's a sorehead sometimes, but he's all right."

As you may guess from the sorehead tone of the foregoing, I am no longer a New Yorker.

I'm such a sorehead.

Ed Fry was a sorehead.

Unlike Goldwater, who could seem angry and grim, a sorehead, Buckley offered comic exuberance.

"Sounds to me like you let Commissioner Sorehead get under your skin," McCoy observed.

I'm no sorehead.

'Believe me, I'm not saying it because I'm a sorehead.'

Doctor, will you tell Mr. Sorehead why he should not be cross with Alan Greenspan?

"Need some directions, sorehead?"

"No sorehead stuff," warned Brodie.

And just to prove I'm no sorehead, I'll conjure up another magnum of Dom Perignon.

"Just this, Mr. Sorehead: Keep whining about Alan Greenspan and you'll be known as a common scold.