crabbiness

But for today — like the Tuesday after any holiday — a little seasonal crabbiness is allowed, even encouraged.

The price was steep, the ideas outlandish, and their working methods chaotic — mostly because Thorgerson’s volatile mix of crabbiness and insecurity rubbed everyone the wrong way.

Broadway’s god of mixed emotions, he is captured in Max’s set of interviews and spare commentaries in all his irascible tenderness — his chumminess on display along with his crabbiness.

And I accepted this explanation for much of Bunny’s crabbiness at the end of the term, which subsequently I was to find was due to entirely different reasons.

Maybe her crabbiness, schedule obsession and subversive communication style are products of anxiety, rather than malice.