crabbed
11crabbed — adjective 1) her crabbed handwriting Syn: cramped, ill formed, bad, illegible, unreadable, indecipherable, hieroglyphic; shaky, spidery 2) a crabbed old man See crabby …
12crabbed — UK [ˈkræbɪd] / US [ˈkræbəd] adjective crabbed writing is written in small letters that are very close together and difficult to read crabbed handwriting …
13crabbed — /kræbd/ (say krabd) adjective 1. perplexing; intricate: a crabbed author; crabbed writings. 2. difficult to decipher, as cramped handwriting. 3. Obsolete perverse; contrary and irritable. {Middle English, from crab1 + ed3} –crabbedly /ˈkræbədli/… …
14crabbed — adjective /kræbd/ a) Bad tempered or cantankerous. A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee, b) Cramped, bent. Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey …
15crabbed — crab|bed [ˈkræbıd] adj [Date: 1200 1300; Origin: CRAB; later influenced by crab apple] literary writing which is crabbed is small, untidy, and difficult to read …
16crabbed — [13] Because of their tendency to deploy their pincers at the slightest provocation, and also perhaps because of their sidelong method of locomotion, crabs seem always to have had a reputation for being short tempered and perverse. Hence the… …
17crabbed — crabby / crabbed [adj] in a bad mood acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty*, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy*, harsh, huffy, ill… …
18crabbed — [13] Because of their tendency to deploy their pincers at the slightest provocation, and also perhaps because of their sidelong method of locomotion, crabs seem always to have had a reputation for being short tempered and perverse. Hence the… …
19crabbed crabby cross fussy fussbudgety grouchy grumpy bad-tempered ill-tempered — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …
20crabbed — crabbedly, adv. crabbedness, n. /krab id/, adj. 1. grouchy; ill natured; irritable; churlish. 2. perverse; contrary; obstinate. 3. hard to understand; intricate and obscure. 4. difficult to read or decipher, as handwriting. [1250 1300; ME; see… …
