as in crab
an irritable and complaining person
only a curmudgeon would object to the nursing home's holiday decorations
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Recent Examples of curmudgeon
This fuzzy green hermit has become synonymous with Christmas-hating curmudgeons and greedy holiday buzzkills worldwide since Dr. Seuss introduced him in his 1957 children's book of the same name.
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Mike Miller, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
But there’s one Kansas City salad that even a greens curmudgeon like me will eat: the spinach and goat cheese salad at Spin!
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
Notorious curmudgeon and Steely Dan co-founder Fagen, who at first didn’t respond to his overtures.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024
Mark, now long since passed, was a glorious curmudgeon.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
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Mike Miller, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
But there’s one Kansas City salad that even a greens curmudgeon like me will eat: the spinach and goat cheese salad at Spin!
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
Notorious curmudgeon and Steely Dan co-founder Fagen, who at first didn’t respond to his overtures.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024
Mark, now long since passed, was a glorious curmudgeon.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curmudgeon
Noun
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Choose from a variety of wild Alaskan crab legs or domestic crab claws.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
9 May 2025
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Their reception included several tributes to Ms. Dennie’s Caribbean roots and Maryland upbringing, including music from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and crab cakes made with Old Bay Seasoning.—
Shivani Vora,
New York Times,
9 May 2025
Noun
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Officials also noted a dog was recently killed by a bear near a person, and there were signs that a bear had entered the home itself.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2025
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Visitors should stay at least 25 yards away from any animal and at least 100 yards away from bears and wolves and never feed any wildlife.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
Noun
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Fittingly, McNally’s ascent began with the crank of star-making machinery.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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But af Klint might have just as easily faded into obscurity, her work forgotten, her spiritual messages dismissed as a crank’s.—
Jay Cheshes,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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His ability to be believable as both a laconic grump and a hysterically shrieking interrogator helps add some emotional grounding to Havoc, which otherwise indulges in Evans’s more-is-more-is-more ideology.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
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How this small but annoying quirk came to be — and how to fix it There might be several reasons why bar culture has tipped in a way that makes a bartender feel like an old grump yelling at children to get off his lawn.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Curmudgeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curmudgeon. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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