crabbish

"Isn't he crabbish, Marie?" asked Eveley plaintively.

Eve to the Rescue Ethel Hueston 1933

He was the very same man who had answered Mademoiselle Marguerite's questions so rudely; but Chupin had a way of conciliating even the most crabbish doorkeeper, and of drawing from him such information as he desired.

Baron Trigault's Vengeance ��mile Gaboriau 1852

But our ship, Penelope-like, undoes by night what she has performed by day, and her course is backward and crabbish.

Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

Penelope-like, undoes by night what she has performed by day, and her course is backward and crabbish.

Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843

The crab mutters "Soon" in a crabbish voice, and runs back towards its home in the dark.

WoW.com Adam Holisky 2010

The crab mutters "Soon" in a crabbish voice, and runs back towards its home in the dark.

WoW.com Adam Holisky 2010

Especially when such toys are not without their serious matter, and foolery is so handled that the reader that is not altogether thick-skulled may reap more benefit from it than from some men's crabbish and specious arguments.

The Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus 1502

Nay, and in some degree they prefer these fools before their crabbish wise men, whom yet they keep about them for state's sake.

The Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus 1502

Especially when such toys are not without their serious matter, and foolery is so handled that the reader that is not altogether thick-skulled may reap more benefit from it than from some men’s crabbish and specious arguments.

In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

Nay, and in some degree they prefer these fools before their crabbish wise men, whom yet they keep about them for state’s sake.

In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958