a. [f. prec. + -LY1.] Of the nature of, or characteristic of, a curmudgeon; miserly, niggardly, churlish.
1590. R. W[ilson], Three Lords & Ladies Lond., in Hazl., Dodsley, VI. 380. I care not for him [Wealth], curmudgeonly swad.
1594. Nashe, Terrors of Night, E iij. Come a woing to them in the likenes of a cooper or a curmogionly purchaser.
1776. Foote, Bankrupt, I. Wks. 1799, II. 99. These curmudgeonly cits regard no ties, no obligations.
1886. Sat. Rev., 19 June, 845/1. A total absence of the curmudgeonly jealousy and Trade-Unionism of some practitioners.
So Curmudgeonly adv. (rare.)
1879. G. Meredith, Egoist, xxxvi. She vowed it was done curmudgeonly to vex her.
