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• n  a disposition to be ill-tempered

• But at 55, he has grown into the crabbiness of his voice, one that both feels pain and dishes it out.
• In western Germany, meanwhile, Jackson finds "crabbiness and penny pinching.
• But Dole at 73 was, because he had the crochets of old age--crabbiness, defensiveness.

• crabbedness
• crossness