Like a curmudgeon; avaricious; churlish.

adjective. Like a curmudgeon; churlish.

adjective. Characteristic of a curmudgeon; churlish

adjective. brusque and surly and forbidding

"It speaks, a little, to me as an affirmation the we (or maybe just I) are more optimistic than pessimistic, which is a bit of a stretch for someone that has been described as curmudgeonly since the age of about 18 or so."

ill-natured  

basketbawful  ci-devant  crossgrained  crotchety  gray-uniformed  

churlish  niggardly