curmudgeonly
- s brusque and surly and forbidding
his curmudgeonly temper
- The story of Susan Boyle like that of Paul Potts before her is, except to the most jaded and curmudgeonly among us, completely irresistible.
- Left; Steffen Kugler Getty: Ken McKay talkbackTHAMES Reuters The story of Susan Boyle like that of Paul Potts before her is, except to the most jaded and curmudgeonly .
- But in the early '80s, after kicking his drug habit, he revived his career, becoming a kind of curmudgeonly uncle, with small-bore "observational" humor and an aphoristic style.