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most 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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At its core is one of the most crabbed conceptions of liberty ever penned by a Supreme Court justice.

From Slate • May 18, 2022

But with what a gusto would he describe his favourite authors, Donne, or Sir Philip Sidney, and call their most crabbed passages delicious!

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

When I feel most sorry for any one I'm most crabbed.

From A Knight of the Nineteenth Century by Roe, Edward Payson

The direction was in a beautiful commercial hand, which was at once more hateful in his eyes than the most crabbed of writing.

From Round the Block by Bouton, John Bell

Two or three wags, aware of his infirmity, used to "draw him out" in conversation whenever the most crabbed and choleric old seamen were present.

From Omoo by Melville, Herman