Crab·bed a.
 1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
    Crabbed age and youth can not live together.   --Shak.
 2. Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
 3. Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author. “Crabbed eloquence.”
 How charming is divine philosophy!
 Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose.   --Milton.
 4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
 -- Crab*bed*ly, adv.  -- Crab*bed*ness, n.

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 crabbedness
      n : a disposition to be ill tempered [syn: crabbiness, crossness]