more crabbed

ADJECTIVE

in a bad mood

Synonyms

WEAK

acid acrid acrimonious awkward bad-tempered blunt brusque captious choleric churlish cranky cross crotchety crusty cynical difficult dour fretful gloomy glum grouchy harsh huffy ill-humored ill-tempered irascible irritable misanthropic morose nasty-tempered peevish perverse petulant prickly saturnine snappish snappy sour splenetic sulky sullen surly tart testy tough trying unsociable

Antonyms

WEAK

happy

ADJECTIVE

ill-tempered

Synonyms

STRONG

cross

WEAK

bad-tempered cantankerous crabby cranky disagreeable grouchy grumpy irascible irritable peevish petulant querulous snappish snappy surly testy

Example Sentences

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And at Riverview his father moped in his office and about his fields, growing ever more crabbed and more obstinate, and falling into a rage whenever any one dared mention Tom's name before him.

From A Soldier of Virginia by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

He to know the seventy-two languages he couldn't be more crabbed than what he is.

From Three Wonder Plays by Gregory, Lady

He became more crabbed and irritable than ever; he seemed to be withering away, and his face grew to haunt me, it was so harried and anxious.

From That Affair at Elizabeth by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

All through his career we find him hard to get on with, proud to his inferiors, still more crabbed to those above him.

From Raleigh by Lang, Andrew

All these accomplishments, however, procured him no favour in the eyes of the doctor, who grew more and more crabbed and intolerant, the nearer the term of apprenticeship approached.

From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Irving, Washington