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crabbed

How to use crabbed in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for crabbed.

Editorial note

With the iPad 2 I still crabbed Kindle 3 most of the time, now much less.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

annoyed and irritable

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adjective

annoyed and irritable

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crabbed.

Example sentences

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With the iPad 2 I still crabbed Kindle 3 most of the time, now much less.

2

"What’s the source of this crabbed view of experience?

3

Well, it is rather annoying to be crabbed at like I was on a witch hunt.

4

As for crosswinds, the ship is simply “crabbed,” just as a traditional plane is.

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"Are there languages that force you to write code in a way that is crabbed and incomprehensible?

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[1]-many transport aircraft have gear that is tolerant of crabbed landings.

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If the free expression of political speech is so crabbed and constrained that the above is ok, or legal, or both, then we're fucked.

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Almost no light aircraft do. There's a limit to how much slip a large engined transport aircraft with underwing engines can tolerate before the engine nacelle will scrape the ground, so designers of those airplanes have had to allow for crabbed touchdowns in strong crosswinds.

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The operator bashes out a crabbed and idiosyncratic shorthand in real time, then he or she traditionally had to rework that into a fair copy later.

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MobilePay had already launched and crabbed a large share of the market, the secrecy was completely pointless and I believe it was partly to blame for the massive failure of the solution.

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Sorry.. its how i writei've developed the style over time, i think it somehow informed from growing up behind a glowing screenmyself, i find i read single sentences quicker than walls of text and just prefer the equanimity of lowercaseagain, i apologise.. i suppose some may call it 'crabbed penmanship'

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use crabbed in a sentence?

With the iPad 2 I still crabbed Kindle 3 most of the time, now much less.

What does crabbed mean?

annoyed and irritable

What part of speech is crabbed?

crabbed is commonly used as adjective.