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crabbed

/krab-id, krabd/US // ˈkræb ɪd, kræbd //UK // (ˈkræbɪd) //

贪婪的,贪得无厌,贪婪,贪污

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : grouchy; ill-natured; irritable; churlish.
    • : perverse; contrary; obstinate.
    • : hard to understand; intricate and obscure.
    • : difficult to read or decipher, as handwriting.

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Examples

  • Nobody wanted to hand a plum invasion spot to some fat egghead from a snooty rag, he crabbed.

  • Many years ago I was very much wounded (but I said nothing) to hear myself spoken of as a churl, an impossible and crabbed man.

  • She took the paper almost mechanically, and for some moments she studied the crabbed signature before realizing whose it was.

  • And very keenly and bitterly had she been made to feel during those first few months her dependence upon the crabbed old miller.

  • Am I sure that I myself have not crabbed my own show a bit in telling the full story of our fight to K. this afternoon?

  • "Generally crabbed and reticent with strangers, he took a liking to me," says Emma Lazarus.