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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Still a power-lunch favorite, the menu is California classic with tuna tartare, crab cakes and cobb salad.—
Nicole Trilivas,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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During the kickoff event in La Jolla, volunteers documented crabs, lobsters, sea anemones, fish and even a sea hare, a large sea slug.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 June 2025
Noun
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The long-term goal is ecological corridors to expand the bear population.—
Troy Aidan Sambajon,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 June 2025
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Which again, don't sound problematic but are coming from an administration filled with people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who wouldn't accept scientific evidence unless it were delivered in the corpse of a bear.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2025
Noun
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This old-fashioned instrument relied on a hand crank, as well as an outside metal canister that contained ice and rock salt to freeze its contents of milk, cream, sugar, and mix-ins.—
Joey Skladany,
Southern Living,
24 May 2025
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Still, Fauci proved willing, with time, to accept off-road researchers as collaborators, not cranks.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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Jeremy Levick gently guiding a blindfolded Mulaney around the stage, and Mulaney being a real grump about it.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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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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“Curmudgeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curmudgeon. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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