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adjective
- 1. (especially of an old person) bad-tempered and negative: "a curmudgeonly old man"
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The meaning of CURMUDGEON is a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man. How to use curmudgeon in a sentence.
adjective. old-fashioned uk / kəˈmʌdʒ. ə n.li / us / kɚˈmʌdʒ. ə n.li / Add to word list. often in a bad mood: a superb drama about a curmudgeonly old man. "I don't want to sound curmudgeonly, but I really deserve to win the prize ," she complained. See. curmudgeon. Fewer examples.
Curmudgeonly definition: like or characteristic of a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person. See examples of CURMUDGEONLY used in a sentence.
Old, cranky, and more than a little stubborn, a curmudgeon is the gruff, grey-haired neighbor who refuses to hand out candy at Halloween and shoos away holiday carolers with a "bah humbug!"
When you're curmudgeonly, you come across as very grumpy and unfriendly. A curmudgeonly teacher answers students' questions in a cranky and inapproachable way.
an old person who is often in a bad mood. curmudgeonly. Examples from literature. Are you going to turn curmudgeon, too, like George and the rest of them? But he's a crusty old curmudgeon, and I never hanker much to have him around.
adjective. old-fashioned us / kɚˈmʌdʒ. ə n.li / uk / kəˈmʌdʒ. ə n.li / Add to word list. often in a bad mood: a superb drama about a curmudgeonly old man. "I don't want to sound curmudgeonly, but I really deserve to win the prize ," she complained. See. curmudgeon. Fewer examples.
a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person. Synonyms: crosspatch, kvetch, sourpuss, bear, crank, grump, grouch. curmudgeon. / kɜːˈmʌdʒən / noun. a surly or miserly person.
curmudgeonly - brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply". gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured, crusty. ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition.
easily annoyed. Definition of curmudgeonly adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
