"crabbed" is an accepted English word and can be used in written English.
It is an adjective meaning "complaining and irritable". Example sentence: The crabbed old man grumbled under his breath as we passed him on the street.
It is a matter of historical record that they sought to construct a machinery of government which would endure for generations.He is an exhilarating writer, and his view seems so much more exciting, and inspiring, than the sometimes crabbed reasoning of Justice Scalia.
For them, the philosopher should be less a crabbed academician than a man of letters.
The minute and crabbed always opens out into "infinity," whose dimensions are only glimpsed from the confines of a room, the arbitrary boundaries of a game of marbles or a short poem in regular stanzas.
A trio formed, and moved quickly around the stage, bent over, crabbed, shoulders rolling, arms waving.
It was dawning on him that Lois felt his real problem was crabbed age.
| Miguel Gomes dramatizes the legacy of colonialism in "Tabu" (Dec. 26), about an elderly Lisbon woman whose crabbed final days contrast with her romantic youth in Mozambique.
By the time the doctor appears, you're crabbed over like an old man.
I was too far away to see the details of his face, but I could see his hair, curly and mousy, and that tense, crabbed stance.
The power of his often large drawings of trains, horsemen, and madonnas almost renders moot the old, crabbed issue of outsiderness, the wildwood creativity of asocial and eccentric — perhaps mad — loners, which is sentimentalized by some art people and shunned by most.
She wrote that Roberts's analysis was "rigid," "crabbed," and "stunningly retrogressive," that it "finds no home in the text of the Constitution or our decisions" and made "scant sense".
But his enthusiastic embrace of the wide world of sports points up by comparison a troubling insularity and crabbed vision in the serious art world.
