crabby

Enter Sleek, the crabby tabby cat, and the Rev. Vicarious Cronch, the biblically recondite goat: interlocutors, speaking beasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

He added passengers jokingly pointed out the "shellfish" crab had its feet on the seat, while others called out the crabby commuter for fare dodging.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025

John Ashton, the veteran actor who was best known for portraying crabby Detective John Taggart in the “Beverly Hills Cop” franchise, has died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024

“He seemed a little crabby when I was a kid,” Arnold remembered of his grandfather.

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

I took another step, and she gave what was supposed to be a fierce growl, like a crabby kitten, then whacked her tail again.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

Crustaceans have repeatedly gone from having a cylindrical body plan with a big tail — characteristic of a shrimp or a lobster — to a flatter, rounder, crabbier look, with a much less prominent tail.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2023

Kelly was crabbier than usual afterward, refusing to address the one constant stain on his time in Westwood: defensive coordinator Jerry Azzinaro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2021

They all know that happy and emotionally intelligent workplaces deliver results that crabbier organizations can’t.

From Forbes ● Oct. 22, 2014

He’s achieved many of his goals—Trudy had the baby, he got a bigger offe, he’s dominating Roger—but he seems to get crabbier by the week.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2012

“You’re always crabbier when your eyes are black — I expect it then,” I went on.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

It was about a month later that a legal-looking letter arrived, directed to him, beautifully written in the roundest and crabbiest of engrossing hands.

From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn