Crabbed

a.	1.	Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; - applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. - Shak.
	2.	Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; - applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
	3.	Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author. How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose. - Milton.
	4.	Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.

Adj.

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crabbed - perversely irritable Synonyms: fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, crabby, cross

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