crabbed
/ˈkræbɪd/adjective
1
- (of handwriting) ill-formed and hard to decipher（字迹）潦草的; 难认的。
1.1
- (of style) contorted and difficult to understand（文体）被扭曲了的; 难懂的：
crabbed legal language
晦涩的法律用语。
2
- ill-humoured乖戾的; 易怒的：
a crabbed, unhappy middle age
一个常发脾气的不愉快中年。
派生词
crabbedly
adverbcrabbedness
noun词源
Middle English （in the sense 'perverse, wayward'）： from CRAB1 , because of the crab's sideways gait and habit of snapping, thought to suggest a perverse or irritable disposition.