crabbiest

ADJECTIVE

in a bad mood

Synonyms

WEAK

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-humored ill-tempered irascible irritable misanthropic morose nasty-tempered peevish perverse petulant prickly saturnine snappish snappy sour splenetic sulky sullen surly tart testy tough trying unsociable

Antonyms

WEAK

happy

ADJECTIVE

irritable

Synonyms

WEAK

acid acrid acrimonious awkward bad-tempered blunt brusque captious choleric chuffy churlish crabbed cranky cross crotchety crusty cynical difficult dour fretful gloomy glum grouchy harsh huffy ill-humored ill-tempered irascible misanthropic morose mumpish nasty-tempered peevish perverse petulant prickly saturnine snappish sour splenetic sulky sullen surly tart testy tough trying unsociable

Antonyms

WEAK

amiable good-humored good-natured happy pleasant sweet

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crabbiest

It was about a month later that a legal-looking letter arrived, directed to him, beautifully written in the roundest and crabbiest of engrossing hands.

From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by Fenn, George Manville