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more crabbed

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

ill-tempered

Synonyms

STRONG

cross

WEAK

bad-tempered cantankerous crabby cranky disagreeable grouchy grumpy irascible irritable peevish petulant querulous snappish snappy surly testy

Example Sentences

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My copy was more crabbed than ever; but while she commented so gravely thereupon, I thought of what Santonio had said about my arm and hand.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

All through his career we find him hard to get on with, proud to his inferiors, still more crabbed to those above him.

From Raleigh by Lang, Andrew

My Lessons are more crabbed, or I am more dull and inattentive, for I cannot fix my Minde on my Book, and am secretlie wearie, Robin wearies too.

From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Manning, Anne

She knows more crabbed things and crabbed words than all the Errate betwixt here and Catalonia.

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

Everyone entertained a profound respect for him, and he might have been a popular pet but for his temper which, never genial, became more and more crabbed.

From Wild Animals I Have Known by Seton, Ernest Thompson