curmudgeonly
/ker-muhj-uhn-lee/US // kərˈmʌdʒ ən li //
古怪的,古惑仔,老顽固,古怪的人
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : like or characteristic of a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person:While one could point a curmudgeonly finger of blame at “these young kids today,” many older Americans haven't exactly been model citizens either.
adv.副词 adverb
- 1
- : in the manner of such a person:After several weak episodes the new season seems to be finally snapping into place—although I am, curmudgeonly, a little peeved that it took so long.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
James Caan should be able to play a curmudgeonly drunk grandpa in his sleep and still get laughs.
Sarah and Mark are happily engaged, and Sarah stumbles onto a job working for a curmudgeonly photographer (Ray Romano).
Curmudgeonly comedian Gilbert Gottfried has a voice and laugh as damaging as fingernails on a blackboard.
James Watson, of the Nobel Prize-winning team that discovered the structure of DNA, played up his curmudgeonly persona to the max.
Or to put the question more directly: When will the curmudgeonly American music labels let it happen?
Positively your behavior appears rather curmudgeonly than heroic!
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