Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CRABBED
CRABBED
Definitions of CRABBED
- Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
- Cramped, bent.
- (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.
- (aviation, of an approach and landing) Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab.
- inflection of crab
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using CRABBED in a Sentence
- Charles Mathews, and, being encored, substitutes for it a piece of rhymed and rhythmical nonsense wholly indescribable; now he gives in breathless haste a conjunction of all the hardest and most crabbed specimens of scientific terminology, and again he imitates the wheedling jargon of the street swindler.
- Two days later, she received four pages covered front and back with crabbed handwriting detailing Eisler’s many indignities, humiliations, and rejections since coming to England.
- It was cross-hatched, crabbed, starred with questions and answers in different coloured inks, in typescript.
- In his 1947 profile, Mitchell characterized Thompson as a "sad-eyed, easygoing Connecticut Yankee" and as a member of a family that had "fished and clammed and crabbed and attended to lobster traps" in Stonington waters for three hundred years.
- Shortly after Model's departure to Rzhev area, Hitler also stated that: "Generals must be tough, pitiless men, as crabbed as mastiffs—gross-grained men, such as I have in the Party".
- However she also wrote: "The eccentricities which marked her after-life might be attributed to untoward circumstances acting upon a naturally crabbed and selfish mind", and "In her countenance might be traced earth-born care, envy, malice and hatred".
- Mabel accuses Hannah of witchcraft, and in a grand ensemble Martin stands in Hannah's defence, Mabel comments that she has been betrayed by those she has fostered, Hannah collapses unable to bear it all, Luke gloats that his scheme seems to be working out just fine, Steenie comments that he might be old and crabbed, but he has not yet lost all his senses, and all the people try to work out what is happening and why everyone seems to have gone mad.
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