Sentence examples for is crabby from inspiring English sources
adjective
Visibly irritated or annoyed; grouchy, irritable, in a foul mood; given to complaining or finding fault in an annoyed way.
What you might think is crabby is really just empty.
If your child is crabby during school, he or she may not get the full experience of nursery school that you would expect because they are too tired to learn.
don't be crabby, she writes.
"He's crabby like Lucy, diffident like Charlie Brown.
Tagg was depicted as being crabby last week, but he actually seems more bemused than surly.
First, I try to play nicely with everybody; second, if I am crabby, I take a nap.
Roseanne Connor broke the mold for TV mothers: she was crabby, she was fat, she was crushed by her responsibilities, but she was loving despite it all.
"Before, when I'd go to practice, you know, maybe you've had a bad day, you're crabby, you don't feel like practicing.
They can indeed be "crabby," which Webster's defines as cross or ill-tempered, and "crabbed" (morose and peevish), and they are very adept at "crabbing" (making sour) what were, just moments earlier, the best of times.
Though the 38-year-old Mr. Lonergan likes to cultivate a curmudgeonly aura ("my friends think I'm crabby," he says with relish), he is warm and informal: everyone calls him "Kenny".
People think I'm crabby having seen the new movie, (1) but I'm not this misanthrope who sits in a dark room, smoking, writing comments under YouTube clips.
