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Adjective: curmudgeonly  ,kur'mú-jun-lee
  1. Brusque and surly and forbidding
    "his curmudgeonly temper";
    - crusty, gruff, ill-humored [US], ill-humoured [Brit, Cdn]

See also: ill-natured