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

crab8 crabbing15 crabs9

Words that contain CRABBED

scrabbed15 crabbedly19 crabbedness18 crabbednesses20

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.

Similar words containing CRABB without suffix ed

crabby15 crabber13 crabbit13 crabbers14 crabbier14 crabbily17 crabbing15 scrabbed15 scrabble14 scrabbly17 crabbedly19 crabbiest15 scrabbing16 scrabbled16 scrabbler15 scrabbles15 crabbiness16 scrabblers16 scrabblier16 scrabbling17 crabbedness18 scrabbliest17 scrabblings18 crabbinesses18 hardscrabble22 crabbednesses20 hardscrabbles23

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