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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.

    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. ``Crabbed eloquence.''
    --Chaucer.

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

  4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. -- Crab"bed*ly, adv. -- Crab"bed*ness, n.

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crabbedly

adv. In a crabbed manner.

Usage examples of "crabbedly".

Wrenn, crabbedly, then shook hands warmly with the bookkeeper, to show there was nothing personal in his snippishness.

The two pages randomly revealed were covered from top to bottom, Franz saw, with unbroken lines of neatly yet crabbedly inked black astronomical and astrological signs and other cryptic symbols.