Usually means: Ill-tempered, grumpy, and stubborn disposition.
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  1. curmudgeonly: Merriam-Webster
  2. curmudgeonly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curmudgeonly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. curmudgeonly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Curmudgeonly, curmudgeonly: Wordnik
  6. curmudgeonly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. curmudgeonly: Wiktionary
  8. Curmudgeonly, curmudgeonly: Dictionary.com
  9. Curmudgeonly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. curmudgeonly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. curmudgeonly: Rhymezone
  12. Curmudgeonly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. curmudgeonly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. curmudgeonly: FreeDictionary.org
  15. curmudgeonly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. curmudgeonly: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See curmudgeon as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Characteristic of a curmudgeon; churlish.

Similar:
ill-humored, gruff, ill-natured, ill-humoured, crusty, curmudgeony, curmudgeonish, curmudgeonous, churlish, grumpish, more...

Opposite:
amiable, affable, genial, friendly

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    olive,     taupe,     mustard,     charcoal,     rust, more...

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Similar:
ill-humored, gruff, ill-natured, ill-humoured, crusty, curmudgeony, curmudgeonish, curmudgeonous, churlish, grumpish, more...

Opposite:
amiable, affable, genial, friendly

Colors:
    olive,     taupe,     mustard,     charcoal,     rust, more...



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