crabbed

The children avoided the crabbed old man because he scolded them when they made noise.

The crabbed , patient experimenting of these Arab alchemists spread into the Christian world.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed and repulsive to common sense, it is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Who has not noticed the power of love in an awkward, crabbed, shiftless, lazy man?

Applications incomplete or crabbed handwriting will not be considered and rooms will not be kept if you can't check in on time.

Accumulation is overmuch, can behave for disposition crabbed, absentminded , appear then body symptom: Decline of giddy, insomnia, memory.

it is , especially such a language as this crabbed but glorious deutsch.

Instead of toiling at a crabbed text and then thinking over its significance, readers now could think unimpeded as they read.

Some diagnose paper's hand writing is so crabbed, the description is short of normative words.

The angel shut his eyes as the car crabbed around a corner.

Snapping chalk lines, I crabbed myself from one side of the roof to the other, tacking down the fragrant shakes.

His mature compositions are generally considered the more cerebral and crabbed.

Nobody doubts his knowledge of German archives, or his skill in deciphering the crabbed handwriting of senior Nazis.

I simply cannot decipher his crabbed handwriting.

adj. peevish devoid petulant scarce cantankerous scanty choleric insufficient crabbed lack fractious deficient inadequate