Grandpa was a real curmudgeon to the very end.
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Curmudgeon
//kɜːˈmʌdʒ.ən//
Synonyms for "curmudgeon" (9 found)
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39 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- темерут noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Czech
2 entries- bručoun noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- mrzout noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Dutch
2 entries- iezegrim noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- kankeraar noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Esperanto
2 entries- grumblemulo noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- grumblulo noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Finnish
2 entries- kääkkä noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- äkämys noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
French
4 entries- baderne noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- bourru noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- ganache noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- rombière noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
German
3 entries- Griesgram noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- Miesepeter noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- Spielverderber noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Italian
2 entries- burbero noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- musone noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Japanese
1 entries- 意地の悪い人 noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Korean
1 entries- 꼰대 noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Macedonian
1 entries- намќор noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Māori
1 entries- porokaihākere noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Polish
3 entries- gbur noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- mruk noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- zrzęda noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Portuguese
3 entries- casmurro noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- caturra noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- rabugento noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Russian
3 entries- грубия́н noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- грубия́нка noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- старый ворчун noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Scots
1 entries- Archie noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- namćor noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- намћор noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Spanish
2 entries- cascarrabias noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- testarudo noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Welsh
3 entries- cerlyn noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- cingroen noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
- gŵr crintach noun (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Don't be such a curmudgeon!
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How did you become such a curmudgeon? You used to be so cheerful all the time.
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If that old curmudgeon had had any children, he might not have become such a curmudgeon in the first place.
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