Synonyms: ill-humored, ill-humoured, gruff, crusty, curmudgeonly
Definition: brusque and surly and forbidding
Usage: crusty remarks; a crusty old man; his curmudgeonly temper; gruff manner; a gruff reply
Similar words: ill-natured
Definition: having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
Synonyms: crusted, crustlike, crusty, encrusted
Definition: having a hardened crust as a covering
Similar words: covered
Definition: overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form
Usage: women with covered faces; covered wagons; a covered balcony