Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Like a curmudgeon; avaricious; niggardly; churlish.
Wiktionary
- adj. Characteristic of a curmudgeon; churlish
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. brusque and surly and forbidding
Examples
“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.”
“Veteran TV and stage actor Eric Peterson - best known as the curmudgeonly Oscar Leroy on”
“We don't seem to be all that filled with holiday spirit around here, but I'm kind of curmudgeonly about that anyway except around my family, so I kind of don't mind ...”
“Damon admits that some might consider this approach "curmudgeonly," but his larger point is that philanthropy will only reach its full potential by admitting and examining its weaknesses better than it does at present.”
“Paul S: From yesterday's Observer, a review of the new compilation - complete with obligatory use of 'curmudgeonly':”
“Loses points however for reducing The Fall's world view to "curmudgeonly".”
“Rooney’s remark was curmudgeonly, which is what he does for a living.”
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“Is there something curmudgeonly about the fact I take some pride in having read none of the 30 bestselling books of 2009 [9]?”
“Is there something curmudgeonly about the fact I take some pride in having read none of the 30 bestselling books of 2009?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘curmudgeonly’.
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udgeon words - real and imagined
THE place to be if you are a well-defined udgeon word.
dudgeon, fudgeon, strumdudgeon, humspudgeon, mumdudgeon, chumdudgeon, ho-humdudgeon, udgeongoing, smudgeon, gludgeon, knee high dudgeon, rumdudgeon and 99 more...
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Words that look like adverbs but aren't
manly, womanly, ungainly, slovenly, homily, costly, dastardly, family, sparkly, wrinkly, oily, orderly and 69 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 457 more... -
thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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lanas's Words
serendipitous, insouciant, charming, sanguine, dear, odd, quaint, small, tremble, blush, flirt, tryst and 248 more...
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litigious semantics
ad unguem, abeyance, choleric, contentious, curmudgeonly, churlish, dictatorial, vindictive, dogmatic, truculent, mutinous, refractory and 254 more...
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phuzzy's Words
entomophagan, corpuscle, mellifluence, haberdasher, milliner, tow, spartan, bdellotomy, trepan, trephine, congenial, courtly and 208 more...
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Inspiring eloquence
peripatetic, prevaricate, contrapuntal, defenestration, incontrovertible, facetious, curmudgeonly, assuaged, dichotomy, peccadillos, monopsony, coda and 146 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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Another day, a whole nother list
rump, spot on, flank, outflank, rank, bedeck, leafhopper, apocope, academic, set-to, point of no return, cloy and 210 more...
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Spod's Words
corpulent, squidge, squiffy, sinuosity, ebullient, finger, penetrate, stimulate, recalcitrant, recidivist, dunnock, rococo and 152 more...
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NeoteriX's Words
pejorative, saccharine, ineptitude, disingenuous, contravene, comport, ostensibly, nefarious, invidious, quixotic, incorrigable, capricious and 111 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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Moods
apathy, cuntificate, quixotic, noxious, fetid, malodorous, trepidation, expectancy, contempt, disgust, terror, fear and 149 more...
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Bad Mood
If you're gonna feel this way, you might as well enjoy it.
curmudgeonly, grumpy, cantankerous, resentful, crusty, pissed, irascible, moody, surly, cranky, peevish, cross and 57 more...
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The C Word
The next time someone uses the phrase "C Word" ask them if they mean any of the ones on this list. Suggestions Welcome! I'm looking for words that could be used to describe other people, especially...
crotch, communist, cranky, crabby, cantankerous, capricious, cranium, covert, corrupt, charming, cunning, curmudgeonly and 42 more...
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