crabbed
/ˈkræbɪd/
adjective
- Irritable and bad-tempered; grumpy.
- After a long day, he became crabbed and snapped at his family.
- The old man was crabbed and rarely smiled at anyone.
- Her crabbed response surprised her usually cheerful coworkers.
- (of handwriting) difficult to read because small and cramped.
- She wrote in a crabbed script that filled every corner of the page.
- Historians struggled to read the crabbed notes from the 18th century.
- The doctor's crabbed handwriting was nearly impossible to decipher.