(a.) Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may seem curmudgeonly to sprinkle our meagre daily measure of praise upon the negation of something: the fact that a plan is not going ahead.
(2) " But Lindsay was also a curmudgeon, and he could be very difficult at times.
(3) Riva is not being curmudgeonly (well, not much), but it is easy to forget that she is not playing at being an octogenarian.
(4) The old curmudgeon might have to admit that his boy did pretty well here.
(5) Which is why every family should have at least one … Facebook Twitter Pinterest Placator or Curmudgeon?
(6) Any English speaker who has tried to tell (or fully understand) a joke in France will know the problem – just as some ancient Romans were well aware that the conquered Germans had different rules of laughter from their own ("The Germans don't laugh at vice", as one curmudgeonly Roman critic observed).
(7) The film has made converts of even the most curmudgeonly critics, grossing more than $531m (£327m) worldwide in its first four weeks.
(8) However, only the most curmudgeonly would deny that bouquets are due in particular to those who do not normally share the limelight, namely, the engineers, construction workers, architects and others who, in five years, have physically performed a modern miracle .
(9) A new Father of the Bride movie will see Steve Martin's curmudgeonly dad planning the upcoming nuptials of his gay son, according to reports on nikkifinke.com .
(10) Without appearing a curmudgeon, I worry that such kindness could be a thing of the past.
(11) "He had no education but was a very intelligent man, a great walker and birder, a curmudgeonly leftwing atheist who even back then wasn't homophobic or racist.
(12) We've grown so used to our curmudgeonly fictional coppers, whether in books or on screen, that it's easy to forget that Beck is the prototype for practically every portrayal of a policeman ever since, in this country, or America, or continental Europe.
(13) Now, that is no doubt all very exciting for texting tweenagers, and I don't want to come across here as a linguistically conservative, humourless and miserable curmudgeon.
(14) The Curmudgeon Moans and has a great line in sarcasm.
(15) Twain's cult of personality – as lecturer and novelist, commentator and social critic, travel and humour writer, gadfly and avuncular curmudgeon – was carefully judged, his folksy humour natural, but strategically deployed.
(16) The organisers call the picture a manifesto and, looking at it, it becomes easier to see the, at first rather surprising, affinity the curmudgeonly bachelor discovered in this world of girliness and frills.
(17) The veteran actor Timothy West has also joined the show as Carter's father Stan, a curmudgeonly and opinionated former Billingsgate fishmonger.
(18) Meanwhile, Woody Allen continues to make movies, Bill Murray is a loveable but curmudgeonly old fella’ and Terry Richardson is a feted photographer.
(19) Even the most Friends-phobic curmudgeon has to admit that 10 years' toil on a popular sitcom will have honed Jennifer Aniston's comic chops.
(20) A club of such means does not usually inspire fondness from neutrals, but only a curmudgeon could fail to appreciate the accomplishment of City.
Gruff
Definition:
(superl.) Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.
Example Sentences:
(1) A gruff intellectual alternately nicknamed “Mad Dog” and “the warrior monk,” Mattis is deeply respected in much of the foreign policy establishment, despite notably clashing with the Obama administration over his more hawkish views on Iran.
(2) Ricky Gervais: 'It’s always about people, it’s always about ego' Read more Take the film’s opening minute, in which gruff US comedian Jim Norton cameos as an absurdly camp male prostitute eager to offer radio journalist Frank Bonneville (Eric Bana) a “freebie”.
(3) I still am.” For many Republican primary voters, the question is whether the unassuming if somewhat gruff Paul – who insisted on no mayo in the ham and cheese sandwich he ordered for lunch – ever was particularly interesting, or if voters were only attracted to the idiosyncratic, 21st-century libertarianism he expounds.
(4) At the booth in between the never-was of Windsor and the has-been of Detroit, the officer I happened to draw had a gruff belly and the mysterious air of intentional inscrutability, like a troll under a bridge in a fairytale.
(5) The then manager was Walter Smith, a gruff but dignified Scot who had enjoyed considerable success at Rangers a decade earlier.
(6) Ingham, whose gruffness camouflages an intellect of silken agility, was addressing the specific question of his boss’s public image, and asking, by implication, if the Iron Lady could – well – melt, just a little.
(7) The film critic, who says Statham's name with an approximation of his low, gruff cockney, likes the chance the actor took with Hummingbird and also admires his 2011 film Blitz , co-starring Paddy Considine.
(8) Many had come for the first time to witness the much-vaunted oratorical skills of France’s youngest MP – and to see how she compared to her grandfather, the gruff former paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen, who co-founded the Front National in 1972 and led it to become the most successful far-right party in western Europe.
(9) Get the metal pan!” Martin jokes, aping the Hollywood convention of a gruff doctor dropping each slug into a brass surgical tray with a solid “plink”.
(10) Rajapaksa's folksy, gruff bonhomie and his canny direction of development funds to the countryside has paid dividends at successive polls.
(11) His manner was often gruff and rude, even to those he liked: Isabella Blow, (pictured right with McQueen) who was broke when she bought his entire first collection and had to pay for it in installments, told me once how he used to march her to the cashpoint every week to get £50 out.
(12) Many of them were adapted for television or made into feature films; the Wexford books in particular were an enormous success on TV, with the actor George Baker playing Wexford as a big, gruff, rural policeman, solving crime in the fictional Sussex town of Kingsmarkham.
(13) But his less enthusiastic answer about Bannon comes amid reports of infighting in the Trump White House, all of which place the gruff, irascible Bannon at the center.
(14) Jenkins is small, but she has a surprisingly gruff voice, rising to a growl when she is annoyed.
(15) "I'm extremely well," he says with jovial gruffness.
(16) Luther starts in the UK on Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1 LUTHER: THE SERIES THREE LINEUP John Luther Gruff of voice, red of eye, natty of coat, the maverick DCI is good at solving crime, bad at life.
(17) His voice sounded gruff, his eyes still fixed on my breasts as he continued the fierce stroking and caressing.
(18) The White House did not announce the meeting until late on Thursday, prompting a gruff complaint from Beijing, in what has become something of a diplomatic ritual whenever Obama meets the exiled Buddhist monk.
(19) Tens of thousands of west of Scotland men derived a gruff pride in working hard for their money and providing food and shelter for their families.
(20) The show has made a star of one year 9 boy, 13-year-old Ryan Ward, a gruff-voiced, latte-drinking philosopher who wants to be a firefighter, a police officer or an actor.