crabby
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The bots responded to lines of cars and never got crabby, Baartman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 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
“He seemed a little crabby when I was a kid,” Arnold remembered of his grandfather.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
The idea of giving up steak, Manhattans or Instagram would make me crabby.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
“Gone, gone,” the old woman replied with a crabby shrug, irritated by his persistence, her low wail growing louder.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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 Fenn, George Manville
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