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Significats de curmudgeonly en anglès
Brusque and surly and forbidding.
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Examples for "gruff"
Examples for "gruff"
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The tones were gruff, and almost Indian-like in the brevity of expression.
2
Nevertheless, in spite of himself, he went on in a gruff voice:
3
His gruff voice was the one I'd heard talking with Luke earlier.
4
His voice was gruff, his manner professional, and the news was bad.
5
When he was within talking distance he said in a gruff voice:
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One hand held fast to the crusty wood better than the other.
2
James had come to quite like the professor, despite his crusty exterior.
3
Trump also represents the polar opposite of golf's crusty, oft-criticised membership culture.
4
Served with satay, pour over chips or just simply with crusty bread.
5
His usual crusty manner was quite gone now; he seemed years older.
1
Moreover the place is wearisome, and I am fanciful and often ill-humoured.
2
The miller felt the hours hang heavily, and he became listless and ill-humoured.
3
All this time he was hardly awake and a little ill-humoured in consequence.
4
Marius shrugged his shoulders; his face suggested that he was ill-humoured.
5
His temper has changed, too: he has grown ill-humoured and irritable.
1
But he was little given to thought, although not ill-humored in intention.
2
Then, quite exhausted and rather ill-humored, I walked back to the village.
3
This almost imperceptible symptom, and the rather ill-humored look, foretold a storm.
4
He then went into the yard and unchained the formidable and ill-humored watch-dog.
5
Be not ill-humored; you know it is useless to resist me.
Ús de curmudgeonly en anglès
1
Prematurely curmudgeonly, O'Rourke is a man forever on the outside looking in.
2
He was crusty, curmudgeonly, opinionated and a real delight to know.
3
Benítez must wish he could revert to his old curmudgeonly ways.
4
The familiarity is there, and the inspector is as curmudgeonly warm as usual.
5
From the off Byrne played up the role of the curmudgeonly old stager.
6
One or two, more curmudgeonly than their fellows, wouldn't even consider such nonsense.
7
Yes, Myspace is one ugly, curmudgeonly bastard compared to its peers.
8
At one point he, rather curmudgeonly, asked the sound person to turn the PA off.
9
Jollity isn't something that registers too often in my psyche, curmudgeonly git that I am.
10
The best thing about the movie is Ford's effortless star performance as the curmudgeonly Stonehill.
11
Even the most pedantic, curmudgeonly patriot in England would concur this was an epic innings.
12
I was curmudgeonly about the whole device proliferation thing.
13
Still, Eddie aside, we're curmudgeonly this morning and are looking about for somebody to kick.
14
That's a whole lot of fans of curmudgeonly awkwardness.
15
I hope to revise that curmudgeonly opinion upwards.
16
The curmudgeonly 74-year-old senator from Vermont was written off as a fringe candidate eight months ago.
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