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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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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

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 Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

It is fuller of conceits than ever Cowley crowded into the same space; and lines more crabbed and inharmonious Donne never succeeded in perpetrating.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

He to know the seventy-two languages he couldn't be more crabbed than what he is.

From Three Wonder Plays by Gregory, Lady