| ADJECTIVE | all | curmudgeonly, crusty, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured | brusque and surly and forbidding |
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| Meaning | brusque and surly and forbidding. | |
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| Example | "his curmudgeonly temper" | |
| Synonyms | crusty, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured | |
| Broader | ill-natured | Having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
| Spanish | irritable, malhumorado | |
| Nouns | curmudgeon | a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas |
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