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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. brusque and surly and forbidding;
- Example: "crusty remarks"
- Example: "a crusty old man"
- Example: "his curmudgeonly temper"
- Example: "gruff manner"
- Example: "a gruff reply"
[syn: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Curmudgeonly \Cur*mudg"eon*ly\, a.
   Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly
   fellow.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

curmudgeonly
    adj 1: brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a
           crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff
           manner"; "a gruff reply" [syn: crusty, curmudgeonly,
           gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured]