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Curmudgeonly

//kə(ɹ)ˈmʌdʒənli// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Characteristic of a curmudgeon; churlish.

    "In A League of Their Own (1992), as the shouty baseball coach to an all-girls team, he's once again a curmudgeonly but lovable mentor figure."

Adjective
  1. 1
    brusque and surly and forbidding wordnet

Etymology

From curmudgeon + -ly.

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