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At the end of Anton Chekhov's The Bet, the lawyer survives the 15 years in prison but refuses to take the money. In a literary twist, the banker plans to murder the lawyer the day the lawyer is released from prison so that he does not have to pay him.
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I'd say the word that best describes the meaning of curmudgeonly would be yelled. A good synonym for curmudgeonly would be grouch or irritable.
Explanation: The word curmudgeonly means bad-tempered and negative, so I would assume that him yelling at the children is why the word curmudgeonly is used to describe him.
