What is "crabbiness"

Usage examples of "crabbiness".

Anna let her crabbiness go, and like a kid's kite carried away on the wind, it was gone.

A compact blond in her mid-thirties, she glowered from the pages of the Echo with the irascibility of one who had learned that unrelenting crabbiness served her far better than cheerfulness and was not about to forget it.

And to my children, Geoffrey, Emily, and Charlie, for being patient with me through the crabbiness and neglect that always seem to accompany my bursts of writing, and for letting me borrow from their lives and experiences as I create the characters I love the most.