crabbed

How to use crabbed in a sentence

• Nobody wanted to hand a plum invasion spot to some fat egghead from a snooty rag, he crabbed.

  The Story of the American Journalists Who Landed on D-Day | Timothy M. Gay | June 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Many years ago I was very much wounded (but I said nothing) to hear myself spoken of as a churl, an impossible and crabbed man.

  Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile Gautier

• She took the paper almost mechanically, and for some moments she studied the crabbed signature before realizing whose it was.

  Mistress Wilding | Rafael Sabatini

• And very keenly and bitterly had she been made to feel during those first few months her dependence upon the crabbed old miller.

  Ruth Fielding At College | Alice B. Emerson

• Am I sure that I myself have not crabbed my own show a bit in telling the full story of our fight to K. this afternoon?

  Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 | Ian Hamilton