Brusque and surly and forbidding.
Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion.
Синонимы
Examples for "crusty "
Examples for "crusty "
1 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 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.
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.
1 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:
6 He was gruff , but his loyalty to Beauvoir was clear and unequivocal.
7 It was Leverage who brought it up, in his characteristically gruff way.
8 My wife did, but received only a gruff response from the general.
9 She thought the voice had been gruff , but that didn't mean anything.
10 A gruff order from the General's shattered the spell that bound them.
11 He had the loud gruff voice which implies the right to command.
12 He looked at the floor guiltily and spoke in a gruff voice.
13 When he bade goodnight to Parkins, he murmured in a gruff undertone:
14 Alwa returned his salute, and raised his voice in a gruff command.
15 It would be very amusing, said Andrews in a gruff , breathless voice.
16 But evidently this was not the morning for Tighe to be gruff .
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