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[ UK /kɹˈæbi/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹæbi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. annoyed and irritable

How To Use crabby In A Sentence

  • And I'm sorry, I am just tired and crabby right now.
  • Mary Ellen Flynn is a crabby, old primary teacher about to begin her first position in London.
  • Unleashed, she is a maenad: not crabby but sardonic and perpetually restless, she scrambles over the stage, squaring up to several men at a time; she drinks from a hip flask; she wees; she smokes – and she fumes. The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review
  • I don't mind being the one who has to call the plumber, and sit with the plumber, and go scouting for soap dispensers for the kitchen to replace the ridiculous airgap that they make you put it, but I don't like everyone being crabby at me about the whole thing. Readersguide Diary Entry
  • A lifting and a blepharoplasty eyelid surgery helped her acquire a more youthful look and less crabby expression than she used to carry when she commanded the Presidential Staff Office during the Lula government. Ana Clara Costa: PHOTOS: See The New Brazilian President's Extreme Makeover
  • Maybe that's why I am feeling so crabby this morning.
  • The excess energy from quitting smoking has apparently slipped away and I'm in that dangerous stage in the battle where I'm crabby and snappish.
  • Mae was surprised to see her, but welcoming in her crabby, grandmotherly sort of way all the same.
  • Especially with Thoreau, snippets can feel sententious or bossy or crabby, and the Journal isn't. A Different Stripe:
  • `There are lots of words to describe you, Holly, but crabby wouldn't be one of them. JUST BETWEEN US
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