crustiness
31irritability — n 1. testiness, petulance, snappishness, irascibility, touchiness, prickliness; excitability, fieriness, inflammability; peevishness, waspishness, raspiness, fretfulness, edginess, nervousness. 2. grouchiness, crankiness, grumpiness, cantanker… …
32perversity — n 1. contrariness, contradictoriness, contradictiousness, Archaic. contrariousness, contrariety, contumaciousness, contumacity, contumacy, frowardness, seditiousness, refractoriness, querulousness; waywardness, disobedience, intransigence,… …
33sullenness — n 1. crossness, angriness, anger; ill or bad temper, ill or bad humor, ill or bad mood, sulk, sulks. 2. sulkiness, moroseness, mumpishness, glumness, moodiness; resentfulness, bitterness, embitteredness; acrimoniousness, acerbity, choler, spleen …
34tartness — n 1. sharpness, sourness, acidity, acridness, acerbity; pungency, piquancy, bitterness, acidu lousness, harshness. 2. acrimony, causticity, asperity, mordancy, astrin gency, trenchancy; severity, harshness, austerity, sternness; spite,… …
35testiness — n irritability, petulance, snappishness, irascibility, touchiness, tetchiness, prickliness; peevishness, waspishness, raspiness, fretfulness, edginess, nervousness; excitability, fieriness, inflammability; grouchiness, crankiness, crabbedness,… …
36touchiness — adj 1. tetchiness, testiness, irritability, edginess, snappishness, nervousness; irascibility, cholericness, petulance, Rare. petulancy; grouchiness, grumpiness, crankiness, crabbiness, crotchetiness, crossness, crabbedness; churlishness,… …
37crusty — /ˈkrʌsti / (say krustee) adjective (crustier, crustiest) 1. of the nature of or resembling a crust; having a crust. 2. harsh; surly; crabbed: a crusty person; a crusty manner; a crusty remark. 3. Colloquial unpleasantly dirty, grimy or worn:… …
38crusty — ► ADJECTIVE (crustier, crustiest) 1) having or consisting of a crust. 2) (of an old person) conservative and easily irritated. ► NOUN (pl. crusties) informal ▪ a young person of a subculture characterized by a shabby appearance and a nomadic… …
39crusty — [krus′tē] adj. crustier, crustiest [ME] 1. having, forming, or resembling a crust 2. rough and outspoken; not patient, kindly, or refined crustily adv. crustiness n …
40crusty — adj. (crustier, crustiest) 1 having a crisp crust (a crusty loaf). 2 irritable, curt. 3 hard, crustlike. Derivatives: crustily adv. crustiness n …
