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Significados de curmudgeonly em inglês

Brusque and surly and forbidding.

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Examples for "gruff"
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The tones were gruff, and almost Indian-like in the brevity of expression.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest
2
Nevertheless, in spite of himself, he went on in a gruff voice:
The Teeth of the Tiger
3
His gruff voice was the one I'd heard talking with Luke earlier.
The Sea of Monsters
4
His voice was gruff, his manner professional, and the news was bad.
Man in the Middle
5
When he was within talking distance he said in a gruff voice:
A Bid for Fortune; Or, Dr. Nikola's Vendetta
1
One hand held fast to the crusty wood better than the other.
Heaven and the heather
2
James had come to quite like the professor, despite his crusty exterior.
James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
3
Trump also represents the polar opposite of golf's crusty, oft-criticised membership culture.
The Guardian
4
Served with satay, pour over chips or just simply with crusty bread.
Radio NZ
5
His usual crusty manner was quite gone now; he seemed years older.
The Girl in the Golden Atom
1
Moreover the place is wearisome, and I am fanciful and often ill-humoured.
Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus
2
The miller felt the hours hang heavily, and he became listless and ill-humoured.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
3
All this time he was hardly awake and a little ill-humoured in consequence.
The Darling and Other Stories
4
Marius shrugged his shoulders; his face suggested that he was ill-humoured.
St. Martin's Summer
5
His temper has changed, too: he has grown ill-humoured and irritable.
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
1
But he was little given to thought, although not ill-humored in intention.
Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders
2
Then, quite exhausted and rather ill-humored, I walked back to the village.
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
3
This almost imperceptible symptom, and the rather ill-humored look, foretold a storm.
Gerfaut — Volume 3
4
He then went into the yard and unchained the formidable and ill-humored watch-dog.
Andreas Hofer: An Historical Novel
5
Be not ill-humored; you know it is useless to resist me.
The Amulet
Uso de curmudgeonly em inglês
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Prematurely curmudgeonly, O'Rourke is a man forever on the outside looking in.
Reuters
2
He was crusty, curmudgeonly, opinionated and a real delight to know.
Wired
3
Benítez must wish he could revert to his old curmudgeonly ways.
The Guardian
4
The familiarity is there, and the inspector is as curmudgeonly warm as usual.
The Irish Times
5
From the off Byrne played up the role of the curmudgeonly old stager.
The Irish Times
6
One or two, more curmudgeonly than their fellows, wouldn't even consider such nonsense.
The Tangle Box
7
Yes, Myspace is one ugly, curmudgeonly bastard compared to its peers.
The Irish Times
8
At one point he, rather curmudgeonly, asked the sound person to turn the PA off.
The Guardian
9
Jollity isn't something that registers too often in my psyche, curmudgeonly git that I am.
The Irish Times
10
The best thing about the movie is Ford's effortless star performance as the curmudgeonly Stonehill.
Reuters
11
Even the most pedantic, curmudgeonly patriot in England would concur this was an epic innings.
The Guardian
12
I was curmudgeonly about the whole device proliferation thing.
Reuters
13
Still, Eddie aside, we're curmudgeonly this morning and are looking about for somebody to kick.
The Irish Times
14
That's a whole lot of fans of curmudgeonly awkwardness.
Reuters
15
I hope to revise that curmudgeonly opinion upwards.
The Guardian
16
The curmudgeonly 74-year-old senator from Vermont was written off as a fringe candidate eight months ago.
The Irish Times
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