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as in irritable
easily irritated or annoyed
a crabby old dog who snapped at passersby
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as in restless
given to complaining a lot
a bunch of crabby kids who don't want to do any work
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Recent Examples of crabby
One crabby older professor in particular, Devoto (Silvio Orlando), mostly ignores her looks but is taken with her ideas.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 May 2024
Mannequin on Main, 113 S. Main St., Bel Air
Who could be crabby wearing these ceramic earrings?
—Barbara Haddock Taylor, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2024
In this beloved special, the Peanuts kids are all dressing up and ready for a costume party, but Linus has his own way of celebrating the season, no matter what anyone says (and his famously crabby big sister Lucy certainly has a lot to say about it).
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
As the bread course is neatly at the mid-point of the menu, this is a great place to have the most intense flavor strike, which comes from the salty, savory, crabby, and nutty hoisin that perfectly cuts into the soft steamy core of the crab bun.
—Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 May 2024
Mannequin on Main, 113 S. Main St., Bel Air
Who could be crabby wearing these ceramic earrings?
—Barbara Haddock Taylor, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2024
In this beloved special, the Peanuts kids are all dressing up and ready for a costume party, but Linus has his own way of celebrating the season, no matter what anyone says (and his famously crabby big sister Lucy certainly has a lot to say about it).
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
As the bread course is neatly at the mid-point of the menu, this is a great place to have the most intense flavor strike, which comes from the salty, savory, crabby, and nutty hoisin that perfectly cuts into the soft steamy core of the crab bun.
—Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crabby
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People with anxiety may also feel irritable, tense, or restless, and may have a sense of impending danger, panic, or doom.Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Max was admitted to the hospital after experiencing severe pain in July and was diagnosed with transient synovitis, a condition also referred to as irritable hip.Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2024
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Popular on Variety The result is a film that mirrors the restless spirit of its subjects while breaking all of the rules of traditional documentary filmmaking.William Earl, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
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Kamala’s Glock and Camo hats on their own just weren’t enough to sway restless voters in the middle.Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024
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The movie follows a kid and his friend who dig into the mysteries of a haunted house across the street after the grouchy old man who lived there dies in his yard.Dustin Nelson, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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Grier expertly blends grouchy and avuncular, skeptical and devoted, without making either extreme feel like a cliché.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
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The reporters are grumpy, but the ruse works, and (Sean Murray) and Torres’ (Wilmer Valderrama) scurry across the upstairs hallway carrying roughly 200 pounds of literally dead weight.EW.com, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Where to watch: Apple TV and video on demand 'Goosebumps' (2015) R.L. Stine's beloved series of kids horror books was the inspiration behind this rousing adventure where a couple of teens face a host of unleashed creepers, with an evil dummy and Jack Black channeling Stine as a grumpy literary dad.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
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Trying to Kill Each Other' And Walken is marvelous — querulous, petty, cruel — as the Emperor.Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
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Instead, Gerwig and Baumbach promote querulous sloganeering.Armond White, National Review, 19 July 2023
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There’s really nothing to be nervous about, just the optics of everything.Peter A. Berry, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2024
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Still, Trump kept Republicans nervous by mixing in messages of grievance up until the very end of the race, veering off a script on inflation and immigration that operatives believed was more effective in winning over persuadable voters.Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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And there was Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor getting cranky during oral arguments about the lack of uniform standards for ballots and how they are handled.Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
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Its service style is antithetical to cranky Canter’s.Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Crabby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crabby. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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