Thesaurus / crabbed
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Many years ago I was very much wounded (but I said nothing) to hear myself spoken of as a churl, an impossible and crabbed man.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, HIS LIFETHOPHILE GAUTIERShe took the paper almost mechanically, and for some moments she studied the crabbed signature before realizing whose it was.
MISTRESS WILDINGRAFAEL SABATINIAnd very keenly and bitterly had she been made to feel during those first few months her dependence upon the crabbed old miller.
RUTH FIELDING AT COLLEGEALICE B. EMERSONAm I sure that I myself have not crabbed my own show a bit in telling the full story of our fight to K. this afternoon?
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME 2IAN HAMILTON"Generally crabbed and reticent with strangers, he took a liking to me," says Emma Lazarus.
THE POEMS OF EMMA LAZARUSEMMA LAZARUSIt is written in a small and crabbed hand unlike that of a professed scribe.
SELECTIONS FROM EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1130-1250VARIOUSMy joints adapted themselves to her crabbed limits, my tastes and habits to her plain domestic economy.
THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDSERSKINE CHILDERSSomehow the succession of sweet, soft names sounded very attractive to the crabbed old man.
A BOOKFUL OF GIRLSANNA FULLERZeb's note was there, his crabbed handwriting reproduced in large, a half-sheet of the newspaper.
LITTLE BROTHERCORY DOCTOROWHe would settle upon the roof above the nest, and chirp in a crabbed, imposed-upon tone until his wife came out.
ROOF AND MEADOWDALLAS LORE SHARPWORDS RELATED TO CRABBED
- annoyed
- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- contentious
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- exasperated
- fiery
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- prickly
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- resentful
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- surly
- tense
- testy
- touchy
- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- cross
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
- Daedalean
- Gordian
- abstruse
- bewildering
- byzantine
- circuitous
- complicated
- confused
- convoluted
- crabbed
- cryptic
- discursive
- disordered
- disturbing
- enigmatic
- entangled
- excursive
- hidden
- impenetrable
- inscrutable
- interwoven
- intricate
- involved
- jumbled
- knotted
- knotty
- labyrinthine
- mazy
- meandering
- mingled
- mixed
- muddled
- obscure
- paradoxical
- perplexing
- puzzling
- rambling
- recondite
- round-about
- sinuous
- snarled
- sophisticated
- tangled
- tortuous
- undecipherable
- unfathomable
- winding
- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cranky
- cross
- dolorous
- dour
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- melancholy
- moody
- moping
- mournful
- perverse
- perversive
- sad
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- taciturn
- testy
- troubled
- ugly
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
- abrupt
- abusive
- bad-mannered
- barbarian
- barbaric
- barbarous
- blunt
- boorish
- brusque
- brutish
- cheeky
- churlish
- coarse
- crabbed
- crude
- curt
- discourteous
- graceless
- gross
- gruff
- ignorant
- illiterate
- impertinent
- impolite
- impudent
- inconsiderate
- insolent
- insulting
- intrusive
- loutish
- low
- obscene
- offhand
- peremptory
- raw
- savage
- scurrilous
- short
- surly
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- uncouth
- uncultured
- uneducated
- ungracious
- unmannerly
- unpolished
- unrefined
- vulgar
- wild
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