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Scoundrel vs Curmudgeon - What's the difference?

scoundrel | curmudgeon |

As nouns the difference between scoundrel and curmudgeon

is that scoundrel is a mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue while curmudgeon is (archaic) a miser.

scoundrel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood / Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * scoundrelly

    See also

    curmudgeon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A miser.
  • An ill-tempered (and frequently old) person full of stubborn ideas or opinions.
    • There's a cranky curmudgeon working at the hospital who gives all the patients and other doctors flak.
    John Doe's old age and stubborn aversion to new ideas make him a curmudgeon of a candidate.
  • * 1996 , Jeet Heer, Gravitas , Autumn 1996
    • After a while, as cultural debates became more polarized, the editorial tone of the New Criterion went from being charmingly curmudgeon to being bitterly shrill.
  • * 2006 , The New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/technology/circuits/19POGUE-EMAIL.html?ex=1179201600&en=f058e59799358d61&ei=5070]
    • How to Be a Curmudgeon on the Internet
  • * 2007 , The Times [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/modern_times/article1726275.ece]
    • How should I respond, without appearing to be a curmudgeon ?