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curmudgeonliest

curmudgeonliest is the superlative 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 curmudgeonliest

What is curmudgeonliest the superlative form of?
Curmudgeonliest is the superlative form of curmudgeonly.

Words near curmudgeonliest in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curmudgeonliest (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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