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Curmudgeonly

adjective
1.
Brusque and surly and forbidding.  Synonyms: crusty, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured.  "A crusty old man" , "His curmudgeonly temper" , "Gruff manner" , "A gruff reply"





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"Curmudgeonly" Quotes from Famous Books



... in response to all this eloquence, Balder? Positively your behavior appears rather curmudgeonly than heroic! You stand gazing at your relative with almost as much fixedness as he returns your stare withal. There is something ...
— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne


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