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/kˈɜːmədʒənli/
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ADJECTIVE
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brusque and surly and forbidding
a gruff reply
a crusty old man
gruff manner
crusty remarks
his curmudgeonly temper
How To Use curmudgeonly In A Sentence
- Among those of us who look on, a few will be curmudgeonly - carping at inaccuracies or misrepresentations of the original.
- At some moments the soloist's rubato might have seemed overly attenuated, but it would be curmudgeonly to complain, particularly in the light of his ravishingly beautiful treatment of sequential passages.
- At this point she clearly dismissed me as a curmudgeonly fussbudget, which I most assuredly am. Laissez-Fairing: Rules vs. Aerodynamics
- Paul S: From yesterday's Observer, a review of the new compilation - complete with obligatory use of 'curmudgeonly': FallNews
- Neither was much liked on release - his curmudgeonly socialism was out of step with the times - but hindsight may teach us to value them better.
- Many of the books we see these days perched perfectly in high street seasonal window displays are written by static, worn-out, curmudgeonly blatherskites.
- his curmudgeonly temper
- With beetled brow, sour humor and a curmudgeonly look at life, Rooney has become a media staple. Five People Born on January 14 | myFiveBest
- Overpriced in my opinion, but at least on the brink of bearability, even with my curmudgeonly grumbling.
- We don't seem to be all that filled with holiday spirit around here, but I'm kind of curmudgeonly about that anyway except around my family, so I kind of don't mind ... Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice