Monocarpic banality

I’m starting to think that it is only a matter of time before I graduate from being merely  curmudgeonly  and cynical to full blown cantankerousness.  Now these are commonly seen as negative words.  Johnson defined a curmudgeon as “An avaricious churlish fellow; a miser, a niggard’.   Avaricious commonly means “Immoderately desirous of accumulating wealth; …