crabbed
krabd
- v direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
- v scurry sideways like a crab
- v fish for crab
- v complain
- s annoyed and irritable
- A 25-year-old Negro sharecropper laboriously, in crabbed script, wrote his last testament:"Have you thought about some people are allowed a chance over and over again,.
- By week's end, Lawrence of Arabia, for all its crabbed dullness, had already far outsold Lawrence's own Revolt in the Desert, to prove that the legend, true or false, was still .
- By Author Asch's device, the Roman and the Jew were reincarnated in modern Poland, the one a crabbed and Jew-hating scholar, the other a young Jewish translator.