0 in an annoyed or complaining way:
"How will you get up at six?" she asked crabbily.
He crabbily lit a cigarette while the rest of the band prepared the equipment.
"No!" snapped Rosemary rather crabbily.
"Nobody warned me that getting old would involve this sort of thing," he said, crabbily.
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May 10, 2021
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crabbily