curmudgeonly
adj. 小气的；不和悦的
近义词：bad-tempered，crabby，cantankerous，grouchy，grumpy，cranky，irritable，testy，tetchy，irascible，peevish，moody，crusty，ill-humoured，ill-humored，gruff，
英英释义
Adjective
- brusque and surly and forbidding;
"crusty remarks" "a crusty old man" "his curmudgeonly temper" "gruff manner" "a gruff reply"
例句
- The old curmudgeon found a new scapegoat and that let me out. 那个老守财奴找到一个新的替罪羊，这样我就脱身了。
- The cockies are a curmudgeonly lot at the best of times. 现在对这些爱吵闹的奶农们可能是最佳时机。
- Under Mr Obama nobody will dare to seem so curmudgeonly. 在奥巴马时代，没有人敢表现得如此小气。
- Even the notoriously curmudgeonly Peruvians have warmed a bit to democracy. 即使以吝啬而出名的秘鲁已经朝向民主少量加温。
- Indeed, whereas a young curmudgeon has no heart, an old idealist has no head. 的确，一个年轻的乖戾之人没有善心，一个年老的理想主义者没有头脑。
- How does the old curmudgeon keep the rage burning after all these years? 花甲春秋，多年后老头怒火怎能依旧炽烈？