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crab·bed [kræbd] ADJ

1. crabbed handwriting:

crabbed
crabbed

2. crabbed (bad-tempered):

crabbed
crabbed

I . crab [kræb] N

II . crab <-bb-> [kræb] VB intr inf

ˈcrab ap·ple N (fruit, tree)

ˈher·mit crab N

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
Stylistically, the discourse veers abruptly from passages of sublime purple prose to crabbed note-book jottings.
en.wikipedia.org
I rap out sentences and it does not help me think, but only eases my crabbed heart.?
asianjournal.com
Was it not rather his own work, obscure, crabbed, incomprehensible sometimes even to himself, that was without merit?
www.telegraph.co.uk
How many kerfuffles, vendettas and sure-to-be shenanigans can be crabbed into one measly book?
news.nationalpost.com
I have crabbed sideways through alleys in vast migrant slums.
outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.com
If my feelings for my pair of ginger toms approach that state at all, it is a crabbed and twisted form.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Now someone needs to rescue the same phrase from his crabbed, negative meaning.
www.huffingtonpost.com
You come to barely notice her crabbed hands -- "dead birds," she calls them when they seize up -- or her frail, twisted body.
www.theglobeandmail.com
Through the first three hours he had crabbed five boundaries to leg.
www.abc.net.au
Sometimes called amateurish, it is densely drawn and washed, often with a large amount of text in a somewhat crabbed handwriting.
en.wikipedia.org

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