All crusty synonyms
crustΒ·y
C c adj crusty
- brusque β blunt or curt in manner or speech
- cranky β If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- sarcastic β of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- gruff β low and harsh; hoarse: a gruff voice.
- prickly β full of or armed with prickles.
- irascible β easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- crisp β Food that is crisp is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
- crispy β Food that is crispy is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
- abrupt β An abrupt change or action is very sudden, often in a way which is unpleasant.
- bluff β A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
- blunt β If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
- brief β Something that is brief lasts for only a short time.
- cantankerous β Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- captious β apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- choleric β A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
- crabby β Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- cross β If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- curt β If you describe someone as curt, you mean that they speak or reply in a brief and rather rude way.
- dour β sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- harsh β ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
- peevish β cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- saturnine β sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- scornful β full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
- short β having little length; not long.
- short-tempered β having a quick, hasty temper; irascible.
- snappish β apt to snap or bite, as a dog.
- snippy β sharp or curt, especially in a supercilious or haughty way; impertinent.
- surly β churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
- testy β irritably impatient; touchy.
- touchy β apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
- crabbed β surly; irritable; perverse
- snippety β sharp or curt, especially in a supercilious or haughty way; impertinent.
- ill humor β a disagreeable or surly mood.
- splenetic β of the spleen; splenic.
- vinegary β of the nature of or resembling vinegar; sour; acid: a vinegary taste.
- crunchy β Food that is crunchy is pleasantly hard or crisp so that it makes a noise when you eat it.
- friable β easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbly: friable rock.
- hard β not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- well-done β performed accurately and diligently; executed with skill and efficiency.
adjective crusty
- brittle β An object or substance that is brittle is hard but easily broken.
- grumpy β surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- irritable β easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- crotchety β A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- grouchy β sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
- tetchy β irritable; touchy.
- bad-tempered β Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.