curmudgeonly

Etymology

curmudgeon + -ly

adj

  1. Characteristic of a curmudgeon; churlish
    In A League of Their Own (1992), as the shouty baseball coach to an all-girls team, he's once again a curmudgeonly but lovable mentor figure. February 9 2021, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC

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