Crabbedly

Crabbedly
Crabbed Crab"bed (kr?b"b?d), a. [See {Crab},n.] 1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. [1913 Webster]

Crabbed age and youth can not live together. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2. Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste. [1913 Webster]

3. Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author. ``Crabbed eloquence.'' --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. -- {Crab"bed*ly}, adv. -- {Crab"bed*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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