crabbed
Speech parts
1. crabbed - Noun
2. crabbed - Adjective
3. crabbed - Verb
Derived from crab
4. crabbed - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.
Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
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Examples
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.
The writing was impeccably neat and legible though rather crabbed into the centre of the page; I saw a neat crabbed man behind it. Presumably some sort of retreat, one of those desiccated young Catholics that used to mince around Oxford when I was an undergraduate.
At that second exhibition I had to peer into them and look through the grayed color and wonder what it would be like not gray and then wonder what the forms would be like not crabbed by the figures and trees.
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
It is useless, or almost useless, to offer to Youth the treasures of experience gathered by Age. "When you are my age," says Crabbed Age, "you will know what I know, see as I see."