Crabbed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CRABBED in dictionary:

VERB:
• CRAB, to obstruct, frustrate
• move sideways or obliquely
• steer (an aircraft or ship) slightly sideways to compensate for a crosswind or current
• fish for crabs
• grumble about something petty
• act so as to spoil (something)
NOUN:
• a crustacean, found chiefly on seashores, with a broad carapace, stalked eyes, and five pairs of legs, the first pair of which are modified as pincers.
• the flesh of a crab as food.
• the zodiacal sign or constellation Cancer.
• a louse that infests human body hair, especially in the genital region, causing extreme irritation.
• an infestation of crab lice
• a machine with pincer-like arms for lifting heavy weights.
• Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
• Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
• Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.
• Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
ADJECTIVE:
• annoyed and irritable
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to complain

Words related to CRABBED

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How to use CRABBED in a sentence

• I seldom indulge in it myself, as I have bad luck, which makes me Crabbed.
• Some, however, escape the fate intended for them, and in a few days begin to enjoy life in a crabbed sort of a way.
• She became a crabbed, disagreeable woman, old before her time and friendless because she suspected everyone of trying to rob her of her money.
• All that was necessary was to gain the esteem of a crabbed, garrulous old woman, who had doubtless but a few more weeks to live.
• Tell her I am a crabbed old woman with a whim to know her, and that I shall not die happy unless she comes to Elmhurst.
• When you come to think of it, in the light of history, is not that a wonderful thing? One of the chief property owners in our neighbourhood is a rather crabbed old bachelor.
• It was from this period that the crabbed character dated, by which he was known.
• Each of three attempts to investigate with a view to negotiations had been frustrated by a crabbed and violent-looking man with a repellent club.
• The out-door air and exercise which the walker gets give a different tone to his palate, and he craves a fruit which the sedentary would call harsh and crabbed.
• On it was a short inscription in the same crabbed writing which he had seen in the old Bible that Ida had found.
• Too lazy, perhaps, for a chap who has nothing but expectations from a crabbed, half-cracked old uncle, and not always quite on the square.
• He tapped four times on a very low and dirty door in the dark, crabbed street.
• He took no comfort to his soul that those who called him cynical, crabbed, unjust, even malicious, would now be compelled to admit he was right in his estimate.
• They were old men, human driftwood, beached in their declining years, crabbed and sour, looking always backward with unconscious regret.
• Their syntax was archaic and crabbed, their metres forgotten.
• The ink is faded and brown, and the writing is often crabbed and difficult to read.
• Now, if Holt had with him a companion, who of all those in Kusiak was the most likely man? He was a friendless, crabbed old fellow.
• But how would that crabbed old man receive a confidential letter from a lady who was a stranger? My doubts were set at rest by Philip himself.
• He had hoped that if ever they decided to call on the crabbed owner of the Dennison estate he might be along with his camera.
• The treatises which they have left in crabbed Latin and involved methods of argument make wearisome and irritating reading.
• My heart warmed toward the lonely, crabbed old woman as it had never done before.
• What this crabbed text here meaneth By the Word, is plain and simple, It is Jove to whose great voice Gods and men obedient listen.
• Leboeuf was afraid of that crabbed little official.
• Did she think him a feeble and infirm person who leaned on a stick, or a crabbed and cross one who had no manners? He would have to call, if only to thank her for her note.
• Crabbed age and youth could not live together in our case on account of cats.
• The brief note was written in a crabbed hand, and exhibited spots, which, if not lemon juice, were tears.
• Perhaps it would have been wiser to admit that Euripides has marred his own work by this grim tragic-comic encounter of crabbed age and youth.
• She has false hair, false teeth, false jewelry, and the dry, crabbed, inquisitive manner of the idle who are entrusted with authority.
• He drinks hard, he is just like a rattlesnake, just as cross and crabbed when he speaks, seems like he could go through you.
• William said that his master was a man of very savage temper, short, and crabbed.

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