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Curmudgeonly

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adj. Characteristic of a curmudgeon; churlish

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Like a curmudgeon; avaricious; niggardly; churlish.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. brusque and surly and forbidding

Word Usage

"It speaks, a little, to me as an affirmation the we (or maybe just I) are more optimistic than pessimistic, which is a bit of a stretch for someone that has been described as curmudgeonly since the age of about 18 or so."

Equivalent

ill-natured

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

niggardly churlish

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