Crusty

(adj.) brusque and surly and forbidding; 'crusty remarks'; 'a crusty old man'; 'his curmudgeonly temper'; 'gruff manner'; 'a gruff reply' .

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• Crabbed and crusty as ever! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He was small and bent, and perhaps not actively strong; yet he was as tough as an old yew-tree, and as crusty as an old jackdaw. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Aunt Chloe set a chair for her in a manner decidedly gruff and crusty. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Now, old Crusty--old Diogenes (these were her familiar terms for me when we disagreed), what is the matter now? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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