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

From Three Wonder Plays by Gregory, Lady

His diction has some resemblance to that of Tertullian, but is much more crabbed and obscure: none, but the ablest Latin scholars, can understand him.

From The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands by Butler, Charles

My copy was more crabbed than ever; but while she commented so gravely thereupon, I thought of what Santonio had said about my arm and hand.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

It is fuller of conceits than ever Cowley crowded into the same space; and lines more crabbed and inharmonious Donne never succeeded in perpetrating.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

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