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crabbed
Example Sentences
Nobody wanted to hand a plum invasion spot to some fat egghead from a snooty rag, he crabbed.
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.
She took the paper almost mechanically, and for some moments she studied the crabbed signature before realizing whose it was.
And very keenly and bitterly had she been made to feel during those first few months her dependence upon the crabbed old miller.
Am 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?
"Generally crabbed and reticent with strangers, he took a liking to me," says Emma Lazarus.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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