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curmudgeonlier

curmudgeonlier is the comparative form of curmudgeonly.

Meaning of curmudgeonly

Adjective

curmudgeonly (comparative curmudgeonlier or more curmudgeonly, superlative curmudgeonliest or most curmudgeonly)

  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.2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC

Questions about curmudgeonlier

What is curmudgeonlier the comparative form of?
Curmudgeonlier is the comparative form of curmudgeonly.

Words near curmudgeonlier in the dictionary

  1. curmudgeon
  2. curmudgeonery
  3. curmudgeonhood
  4. curmudgeonish
  5. curmudgeonism
  6. curmudgeonlier
  7. curmudgeonliest
  8. curmudgeonliness
  9. curmudgeonly
  10. curmudgeonous
  11. curmudgeonry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curmudgeonlier (page history and authors); curmudgeonly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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