Crabbed Synonyms

krăbd, krăbĭd
Difficult to understand
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. unreadable
  2. intricate
  3. scribbled
To express negative feelings, especially of dissatisfaction or resentment
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. grouched
  2. bitched
  3. beefed
  4. kicked
  5. groused
  6. griped
  7. whined
  8. grumped
  9. complained
Complain
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. squawked
  2. hollered
  3. beefed
  4. groused
  5. bitched
  6. griped

Words Related to Crabbed

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Crabbed Sentence Examples

  • Though not despising the Machiavellian arts of statecraft so universally practised in his day, he was nevertheless by nature plain-spoken and sincere, and in his last years grew violent and crabbed.

  • He is repulsed by the intolerably harsh and crabbed versification, by the recondite choice of theme and expression, and by the oddity of the thought.

  • Zurita's style is somewhat crabbed and dry, but his authority is unquestionable; he displayed a new conception of an historian's duties, and, not content with the ample materials stored in the archives of Aragon, continued his researches in the libraries of Rome, Naples and Sicily; he founded the school of historical scholarship in Spain.