Definitions
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- noun The state of being
crabby
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a disposition to be ill-tempered
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Examples
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Perhaps that accounts for the relative crabbiness of my account?
A Little Night Music deliasherman 2010
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She told me, For a long time, our mornings were awful -- lots of crabbiness and procrastination, me yelling at everyone to hurry up.
Gretchen Rubin: 7 Tips for Keeping School Day Mornings Calm and Cheery Gretchen Rubin 2010
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She told me, For a long time, our mornings were awful -- lots of crabbiness and procrastination, me yelling at everyone to hurry up.
Gretchen Rubin: 7 Tips for Keeping School Day Mornings Calm and Cheery Gretchen Rubin 2010
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Thus, the sense of plowing frozen ground with a toothpick, with attendant crises of confidence and crabbiness.
Progress Report deliasherman 2010
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Thus, the sense of plowing frozen ground with a toothpick, with attendant crises of confidence and crabbiness.
The Duchess of Malfi deliasherman 2010
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She told me, For a long time, our mornings were awful -- lots of crabbiness and procrastination, me yelling at everyone to hurry up.
Gretchen Rubin: 7 Tips for Keeping School Day Mornings Calm and Cheery Gretchen Rubin 2010
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Upset stomachs, poor sleeping, crabbiness and bad moods were like a cloud over our house.
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She told me, For a long time, our mornings were awful -- lots of crabbiness and procrastination, me yelling at everyone to hurry up.
Gretchen Rubin: 7 Tips for Keeping School Day Mornings Calm and Cheery Gretchen Rubin 2010
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Perhaps that accounts for the relative crabbiness of my account?
A Little Night Music deliasherman 2010
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Only you, like I, have most likely developed some charming personality traits that soften our surliness, and compensate for our crabbiness, allowing us to better suffer those "fools" we do not suffer so gladly, and at the same time, rendering ourselves less obnoxious to others.
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