Words and phrases that have a meaning related to curmudgeonly: (116 results)
Often used in the same context:
crotchety, irascible, cantankerous, grumpy, crabby, cranky, genial, dyspeptic, misanthropic, avuncular, grouchy, dotty, gruff, acerbic, droll, sardonic, crusty, humorless, nerdish, pompous, wry, smart aleck, eccentric, supercilious, old codger, doltish, priggish, snappish, amiable, tweedy, peevish, lovable, pedantic, waspish, smarmy, weaselly, hangdog, doddering, erudite, ornery, snobbish, daffy, choleric, censorious, oafish, owlish, clubbable, flinty, smug, grizzled, dimwitted, bumptious, grumbly, incommunicative, demented, glib, loveable, slobbish, bewhiskered, snide, morose, buffoonish, jocular, taciturn, puckish, haughty, snooty, jowly, snarky, querulous, boorish, goatish, foppish, neurotic, condescending, waggish, orotund, pugnacious, sarcastic, tenderhearted, disdainful, falstaffian, churlish, surly, ambitionless, stolid, smirky, senile, grandfatherly, sly, sententious, affable, schoolmasterly, thickheaded, philistine, garrulous, phlegmatic, effete, timorous, endearing, splenetic, nebbishy, opinionated, brusque, cocksure, easygoing, extrovert, gentlemanly, mannered, overbearing, reticent, unassuming, unprofessional
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Also try:ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-natured
— Nouns for curmudgeonly: attitude, man, father, way, fashion, ways, character, style, exterior, behaviour, person, more...
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