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See definition of crusty on Dictionary.com
  • adj.irritable, often due to old age
  • adj.brittle on outside

synonyms for crusty

  • brusque
  • cranky
  • gruff
  • irascible
  • prickly
  • sarcastic
  • abrupt
  • bluff
  • blunt
  • brief
  • cantankerous
  • captious
  • choleric
  • crabbed
  • crabby
  • cross
  • curt
  • dour
  • harsh
  • ill-humored
  • peevish
  • saturnine
  • scornful
  • short
  • short-tempered
  • snappish
  • snarling
  • snippety
  • snippy
  • splenetic
  • surly
  • testy
  • touchy
  • vinegary
On this page you'll find 98 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to crusty, such as: brusque, cranky, gruff, irascible, prickly, and sarcastic.

antonyms for crusty

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  • cheerful
  • happy
  • kind
  • nice
  • pleasant
  • polite
  • flexible
  • pliable
  • pliant
  • soft
  • soggy
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How to use crusty in a sentence

Bitcoin has seen stratospheric growth over the past few months so barring an outsized crash, it’s perhaps unlikely that retail investors are going to fully abandon it in favor of buying up crusty old shares of Blockbuster stock.
COULD MEME STOCKS LIKE GAMESTOP KILL BITCOIN’S RISE?LUCAS MATNEYJANUARY 27, 2021TECHCRUNCH
Garnish each bowl with parsley, and serve with crusty bread for dipping.
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Serve the soup with grated Parmesan or pecorino Romano, fresh herbs and crusty bread to soak up the lightly spicy broth.
HEARTY AND ROBUST, ITALIAN WEDDING SOUP IS A PERFECT MARRIAGE OF MEAT AND VEGETABLESDANIELA GALARZAJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POST
The olives are great on their own, and you can dip bits of warm, crusty bread into the oil marinade.
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It bakes quickly, and the result is a crusty top with a layer of moist dressing below.
THIS SHEET-PAN CORNBREAD DRESSING HAS EVEN MORE OF THE CRISPY, CRUNCHY BITS WE LOVEANN MALONEYNOVEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POST
I began to hear channels of water trickling from the meltwater underneath the surface of crusty ice.
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She cut it with Henry's jackknife into four quarters, and she and Henry took the two crusty ends themselves.
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If the ground is well burned it will be a little crusty and whitish, and will pulverize beautifully.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.
A dry, crusty man, who would never become sub-chief, despite his ability.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHE
Uncle Jabez came forward, as dusty and crusty an old miller as one might ever expect to see.
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WORDS RELATED TO CRUSTY

  • blunt
  • brusque
  • crude
  • crusty
  • curt
  • direct
  • discourteous
  • gruff
  • impetuous
  • impolite
  • matter-of-fact
  • rough
  • short
  • snappy
  • snippy
  • uncivil
  • ungracious
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.