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crabbed::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bad-tempered, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
| Derivation | crabbedness |
Examples of crabbed
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She spent three years deciphering her father's crabbed, difficult handwriting.
From the time.com
The interior feels like any mosque, perhaps a bit crabbed by the partitions.
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In his tiny, crabbed script, he fills one small notebook after another with research.
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Her languorously sweeping Palmer arches were giving way to crabbed speed.
From the theatlantic.com
Any man who runs a third-rate hock shop can be excused for taking a crabbed view of humanity.
From the time.com
They crabbed sideways down the sharp terrain, clipping their carabiners on to the safety wire.
From the nzherald.co.nz
It pitched on leg stump and straightened to beat Taylor on the inside as he crabbed around his front pad.
From the guardian.co.uk
They did not try to match his crabbed handwriting with the distinctive block print on the 2001 letters.
From the washingtonpost.com
The older side is clenched and crabbed, stiff and slow.
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- Annoyed and irritable
- (crabbedness) crabbiness: a disposition to be ill-tempered
- (crab) decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- (crab) direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
- (crab) a quarrelsome grouch
- (crab) scurry sideways like a crab
- Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) (Greek: u03B2u03C1u03B1u03C7u03CDu03C2 / brachys = short, u03BFu1F50u03C1u03AC / u03BFura = tail), usually entirely hidden under the thorax. They live in all the world's oceans, in fresh water, and on land, are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton and have a single pair of claws...
- (Crab (cipher)) In cryptography, Crab is a block cipher proposed by Burt Kaliski and Matt Robshaw at the first Fast Software Encryption workshop in 1993. Not really intended for use, Crab was developed to demonstrate how ideas from hash functions could be used to create a fast cipher.
- (Crab (Kirby)) This is a list of fictional characters in the Kirby video game series developed by Nintendo.
