Crossword-Solution: CRABBED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crabbed | n. | Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. |
| Crabbed | n. | Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste. |
| Crabbed | n. | Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author. |
| Crabbed | n. | Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. |
We have 74 clues for the answer “CRABBED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Went crustacean hunting | 1 answer |
| Was a crossPAtch | 1 answer |
| cankerous | 5 answers |
| Kvetched | 6 answers |
| Found fault with | 7 answers |
| Bellyached | 8 answers |
| Complained | 17 answers |
| Ill-tempered | 22 answers |
| Saturnine | 27 answers |
| Morose | 39 answers |
| Ungracious | 42 answers |
| Inelegant | 64 answers |
| in a rut | 65 answers |
| snuffy | 65 answers |
| perverse | 66 answers |
| thwarting | 66 answers |
| asocial | 66 answers |
| Stand-offish | 66 answers |
| splenetic | 67 answers |
| Gruff | 67 answers |
| curmudgeonly | 67 answers |
| ALIENATED | 67 answers |
| dyspeptic | 67 answers |
| misanthropic | 67 answers |
| hypercritical | 68 answers |
| antisocial | 68 answers |
| sneering | 68 answers |
| quarrelling | 69 answers |
| scornful | 69 answers |
| inhospitable | 69 answers |
| condescending | 69 answers |
| GROUCHY | 69 answers |
| Glum | 69 answers |
| Snappy. | 70 answers |
| contumelious | 70 answers |
| crotchety | 70 answers |
| Opprobrious | 71 answers |
| frustrated | 71 answers |
| fed up | 72 answers |
| crusty | 72 answers |
| cavalier | 72 answers |
| Ennui | 72 answers |
| Snappish | 72 answers |
| Jaded | 72 answers |
| Arguing | 72 answers |
| contentious | 72 answers |
| Derisive | 73 answers |
| crabby | 73 answers |
| Huffy | 73 answers |
| Haughty | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CRABBED (5)
But Godfrey was the heir to this crabbed old nobleman, and it was quite certain that the news of his marriage would have been the end of his inheritance.
Yea, but we found him bald too, eyes like lead, Accents uncertain: “Time to taste life,” another would have said, “Up with the curtain!” This man said rather, “Actual life comes next? Patience a moment! Grant I have mastered learning’s crabbed text, Still there’s the comment.
What do you want me to do? Stay here, and grub away, and become a crabbed old maid like Irma Klein, thankful to be taken around by the married crowd, joining the Aid Society and going to the card parties on Sunday nights? Or I could marry a traveling man, perhaps, or Lee Kohn of the Golden Eagle.
The crabbed style, the formality of the matter, gave him a queer desire to laugh and to take her in his arms and kiss her.
CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH “You know my mother now and then argues very notably; always very warmly at least.
Quotes with CRABBED (3)
How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfet raigns.
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.
You can deny him, he thought, watching his father across the table. You can hate him, love him, pity him, never speak to or look at him in the eye again, never deign even to be in his crabbed and bitter presence, but you're still stuck with the son of a bitch. One way or another he'll always be your daddy, not even all-powerful death was going to change that.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1961–2022).