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crabbedly, adv.|ˈkræbɪdlɪ|
[f. crabbed a. + -ly2.]
In a crabbed manner: crossly, ill-temperedly; sourly, morosely; with rugged intricacy.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 3514 A man also to Julius Cæsar ones Crabbedly seide. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. v. (1634) 318 Many of them..have..spoken to crabbedly and hardly. 1580Baret Alv. C 1523 Crabbedly, sowrely, grimly, lowringly, torue. 1593Nashe Christ's T. 66 a, [He] that in the Pulpit talkes affectedly, coldly, crabbedly or absurdly. a1774Fergusson Plainstane Poems (1845) 49 We sall hae the question stated And keen and crabbedly debated. |