Qualities
Synonyms for crusty
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
brusque and surly and forbidding
A crusty old man.
The true synonym
gruff
Same sentence, swapped: A gruff old man.
Close but different
These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for crusty as it is used in the sentence above.
- encrusted
- saucy
- impudent
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