Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Peevishly; morosely; perversely; with asperity; with perplexity.
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- adverb In a
crabbed manner.
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Examples
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Ballard and Babington, or plotting with Drake (for all they say she didn't) one of his raids, that long long forefinger tracing crooked courses through a crabbedly drawn map of the Indies and she smiling at the dots of cities that would burn.
No Great Magic Fritz Leiber 1951
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She concluded they were deliberately deaf to her, and "Let them go!" she said crabbedly, flaunting an eloquent arm to the winds, comforting herself with the thought that there was no other house in all that dreary country to give them the shelter she had denied.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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"A rough night, Mr. Moore," he said, rather crabbedly.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various
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From this it proceeds, that many times when they rise, their wits run a wool-gathering, and they are more inclined to look crabbedly, grumble and mumble, then to shew each other any signs of love and friendship: for an empty purse, makes a sorrowfull pate.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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It was expected of Colonel Wingate, the censor, that amid multifarious important responsibilities as chief of the Intelligence branch he should find time daily to peruse and correct tens of thousands of words, often crabbedly written, in press messages.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh
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He quelled one incipient mutiny through sheer dominance, but it left him more short of temper, more crabbedly moody than ever.
Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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"I ain't sure," said Mr. Wrenn, crabbedly, then shook hands warmly with the bookkeeper, to show there was nothing personal in his snippishness.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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"I ain't sure," said Mr. Wrenn, crabbedly, then shook hands warmly with the bookkeeper, to show there was nothing personal in his snippishness.
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They raised a shout at him, until finally the old man, reluctantly and crabbedly, sidled over to join them.
The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909
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My essay was too labored, too long, too crabbedly written, and it brought me only half a third prize.
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